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Guide to the Flora and Fauna of Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve

A Natural Cienega Highlighting New Mexico’s Biodiversity

The Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve is a 35-acre nature preserve located on the I-25 frontage road in La Cienega, adjacent to El Rancho de las Golondrinas. This rare natural cienega, or “marsh” in Spanish, hosts a bountiful ...more ↓

Catnip 1
Nepeta cataria
Hooker's evening primrose 2
Oenothera elata
eastern cottonwood 3
Populus deltoides
Iceland Poppy 4
Papaver nudicaule
common yarrow 5
Achillea millefolium
bull thistle 6
Cirsium vulgare
Plains Beebalm 7
Monarda pectinata
field bindweed 8
Convolvulus arvensis
prickly lettuce 9
Lactuca serriola
yellow salsify 10
Tragopogon dubius
wild teasel 11
Dipsacus fullonum
black medick 12
Medicago lupulina
yellow sweetclover 13
Melilotus officinalis
common sunflower 14
Helianthus annuus
fourwing saltbush 15
Atriplex canescens
buffalo gourd 16
Cucurbita foetidissima
wild licorice 17
Glycyrrhiza lepidota
white sweetclover 13
Melilotus albus
Freckled Milkvetch 18
Astragalus lentiginosus
fringed puccoon 19
Lithospermum incisum
yerba mansa 20
Anemopsis californica
blue vervain 21
Verbena hastata
broadleaf milkweed 22
Asclepias latifolia
Russian olive 23
Elaeagnus angustifolia
crossflower 24
Chorispora tenella
pale wolfberry 25
Lycium pallidum
fragrant evening primrose 26
Oenothera cespitosa
Rocky Mountain bee plant 27
Peritoma serrulata
long-leaved groundcherry 28
Physalis longifolia
upright prairie coneflower 29
Ratibida columnifera
New England aster 30
Symphyotrichum novae-angliae
white heath aster 31
Symphyotrichum ericoides
horsetail milkweed 32
Asclepias subverticillata
viviparous foxtail cactus 33
Escobaria vivipara
dwarf ipomopsis 31
Ipomopsis pumila
common silverweed 34
Argentina anserina
stinking milkvetch 35
Astragalus praelongus
summer-cypress 36
Bassia scoparia
wholeleaf Indian paintbrush 22
Castilleja integra
James’ beardtongue 37
Penstemon jamesii
white prairie aster
Symphyotrichum falcatum
Cut-leaf Germander 38
Teucrium laciniatum
Marshelder 39
Cyclachaena xanthiifolia
White Prairie Aster 40
Symphyotrichum falcatum commutatum
tree cholla 41
Cylindropuntia imbricata
Boechera porphyrea 7
Club-cholla 42
Grusonia clavata
Krascheninnikovia ceratoides 43
Krascheninnikovia ceratoides lanata 44
Cornflower 45
Centaurea cyanus

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