New Mexico Rare Plant Conservation Strategy Species
Small, cushion-forming perennial herb with a branched caudex; stems erect or ascending, 2.5-6(-10) cm high, hirtellous, mostly obscured by the opposite leaves; stipules lanceolate, scarious, 5-8 mm long and generally equaling the leaves, to 1.5 mm wi...
Stems 1.0-2.5 cm in diameter, solitary or a few in a cluster, barely protruding above ground level; tubercles not grooved; spines about 20 per areole, all radials, radiating from areole and appressed to the plant, 1-2 mm long, usually whitish, pinkis...
Perennial herb up to about 25 cm tall, grayish-hairy with straight hairs that lie against the surface of the foliage; stems with a thin, cord-like, easily broken, subterranean portion bearing a few small bracts, and a very short aerial, leafy portion...
Root large, fleshy, round at the top, tapering; stems 2 m long, pale gray-green, slender, 1-2.5 cm in diameter, strongly angled by the 4-6 low, broad ribs; areoles narrowly oval about 4 mm long, white to gray woolly, bearing approximately 12 gray to ...
Perennial; stems solitary or few, glabrous, 3-7 dm tall; leaves entire, opposite, basal leaves elliptic to lanceolate, stem leaves much reduced, 2-4 pairs, sessile, lanceolate; inflorescence slightly glandular, more orless secund, usually as much as ...
Plants perennial, forming loose mats from numerous branched and tangled woody rhizomes; stems ascending-decumbent, 2-8 cm tall, minutely puberulent; stem leaves opposite, sessile, glabrous or with a few trichomes at the base, entire to serrulate, nar...
Perennial herb; stems gray-green, glabrous, up to 70 cm tall, branching from the base; leaves opposite, entire, slightly thickened, basal leaves short petiolate, ovate to elliptic, to 12 cm long, stem leaves smaller, sessile, ovate to lanceolate; flo...
Perennial herb; stems 40-100 cm tall; leaves opposite, thick, to 6 cm long and 5 cm wide, heart-shaped; inflorescence secund (one-sided), the cymules paired, well spaced, 2-flowered; calyx 4-6 mm long; corolla 26-30 mm long, red, narrowed at the mout...
Plants perennial, mat-forming; stems 1-5 dm tall, tufted, leafy, pubescent; leaves oblanceolate, 2-4 mm wide (possibly with flattened, scale-like, appressed hairs); inflorescence glandular; corolla (probably) blue-lavender, 16-20 mm long, floor 2-rid...
Perennial from a slender, creeping, woody rhizome; stems few, usually erect, up to 4 dm high, puberulent throughout, glandular above; leaves entire, the lower ovate, the upper lanceolate, thin, minutely puberulent, amplexical, the upper sessile, the ...