New Mexico Rare Plant Conservation Strategy Species
Tufted perennial; caudex simple or closely branched, thick with marcescent (withered but persistent) leaf bases; stems few, 1-3 dm long, very slender, erect to partially decumbent, simple or few-branched, sparsely pubescent below with simple or forke...
Stems solitary or few in a cluster, more or less conical, 10-15 cm tall, 7-10 cm wide; ribs 7-12, tubercled; spines usually 3-7 per areole, thick, to over 1 mm near swollen base, often angular in cross section, usually white to pale gray, sometimes b...
Low spreading shrub 2-3(5) dm tall, intricately branched; leaves grayish-green, alternate, entire, linear, tomentulose, tips mucronate; inflorescence a paniculate cyme; heads discoid, 8-11 mm long, 1.8-2.1 mm wide, phyllaries 16-22, outer ones someti...
Taprooted perennial, mat-forming, 10-70 cm in diameter; leaves mostly basal, spreading or ascending, 8-30 in rosettes at ends of caudex branches, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate or spatulate, 8-23 mm long, 2-7 mm wide, round or obtuse at the tip, mo...
Densely tufted, sparsely hairy perennial herbs; stems from many crowded, short branches, 5-16 cm tall; basal leaves lance-shaped to elliptic, broader above the middle, to 7 cm long and 7 mm wide, usually smaller, blades about one-half the length of t...
Herbaceous perennial with creeping rhizomes; stems 2.5-4.5 dm tall, sparsely branching from near the base, growing in clumps to about 3 dm in diameter; leaves alternate, oblong, about 1.0 cm long, glabrous except for occasional ciliate hairs on the m...
Perennial herb arising from slender woody rhizomes; stems erect, to 3.5 dm tall; basal leaves obovate to oblanceolate 1.8-13.5 cm long, 6-27 mm wide, serrate with small shallow teeth, tapering at the base to a winged petiole; stem leaves similar, bec...
Perennial, mat-forming herb with fibrous root system and slender rhizomes up to 15 cm long; leaves clustered at tips of rhizomes, 5-12 mm long, 1.0-3.5 mm wide, spatulate or obovate, broadest above the middle, tapering toward the petiole, margins en...
Perennial herb arising from a thick taproot with numerous, short (1-3 cm), ascending-erect caudex branches, the upper portion of these with persistent old leaf bases; stems erect, 5-8 cm tall, unbranched, green, sparsely short-strigose with white, st...