Durand Open Space Plant and Animal Guide

Bernalillo County manages 13 Open Space properties (1000 acres) from the mountains to the valley that surround the Albuquerque metropolitan area. This dynamic network of properties encompass important natural and cultural resources managed to benefit people, plants and wildlife. Bernalillo ...more ↓

Green Lacewings 1
Chrysopidae
Common Pill-bug 2
Armadillidium vulgare
Junipers 3
Juniperus
horsetails 4
Equisetum
Red Bird of Paradise 5
Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Jupiter's-beard 6
Anthyllis barba-jovis
Desert False Indigo 7
Amorpha fruticosa
Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
Siberian Elm 8
Ulmus pumila
milkweeds 9
Asclepias
Wild Buckwheats 10
Eriogonum
Salt Cedars 11
Tamarix
Amaranth 12
Amaranthus
tumbleweed
Salsola tragus
Dandelions 14
Taraxacum
Cockleburs 15
Xanthium
common sowthistle 16
Sonchus oleraceus
yellow salsify 17
Tragopogon dubius
New Mexico olive
Forestiera pubescens pubescens
Russian Sage
Perovskia atriplicifolia
Garden catmint
Nepeta × faassenii
Purple Wood Sage 18
Salvia nemorosa
English Plantain 19
Plantago lanceolata
Field Bindweed 20
Convolvulus arvensis
Rio Grande cottonwood 21
Populus deltoides wislizeni
Narrow-leaved Willow 8
Salix exigua exigua
Heliotrope 22
Heliotropium
yerba mansa 9
Anemopsis californica
London rocket 23
Sisymbrium irio
Western Tansy Mustard 8
Descurainia pinnata
golden currant 24
Ribes aureum
Thicket Creeper
Parthenocissus inserta
Virginia Creeper 25
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
little bluestem 26
Schizachyrium scoparium
brome 27
Bromus
Mexican Feather Grass
Stipa tenuissima

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