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 ↓

knapweed 1
Centaurea
False Indigos 2
Amorpha
pale wolfberry 3
Lycium pallidum
Hemp dogbane 4
Apocynum cannabinum
tree of heaven 5
Ailanthus altissima
alkali mallow 6
Malvella leprosa
Timothy 7
Phleum pratense
choke cherry 8
Prunus virginiana
Tower Mustard 9
Turritis glabra
Umbrella Sedge 10
Cyperus serotinus
purslanes 11
Portulaca
puncture vine 12
Tribulus terrestris
Inland Sea Oats 13
Chasmanthium latifolium
vine mesquite 14
Hopia obtusa
bur reed sedge 15
Carex sparganioides
Redtop 16
Agrostis gigantea
mesquites 17
Prosopis
Junipers 18
Juniperus
horsetails 19
Equisetum
Red Bird of Paradise 20
Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Jupiter's-beard 21
Anthyllis barba-jovis
Desert False Indigo 22
Amorpha fruticosa
Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
Siberian Elm 23
Ulmus pumila
milkweeds 24
Asclepias
Wild Buckwheats 25
Eriogonum
Salt Cedars 26
Tamarix
Amaranth 27
Amaranthus
tumbleweed
Salsola tragus
Dandelions 29
Taraxacum
Cockleburs 11
Xanthium
common sowthistle 30
Sonchus oleraceus
yellow salsify 31
Tragopogon dubius
New Mexico olive
Forestiera pubescens pubescens
Russian Sage
Perovskia atriplicifolia
Garden catmint
Nepeta × faassenii
Purple Wood Sage 32
Salvia nemorosa
English Plantain 33
Plantago lanceolata
Field Bindweed 34
Convolvulus arvensis
Rio Grande cottonwood 4
Populus deltoides wislizeni
Narrow-leaved Willow 23
Salix exigua exigua
Heliotrope 35
Heliotropium
yerba mansa 24
Anemopsis californica
London rocket 36
Sisymbrium irio
Western Tansy Mustard 23
Descurainia pinnata
golden currant 37
Ribes aureum
Thicket Creeper
Parthenocissus inserta
Virginia Creeper 38
Parthenocissus quinquefolia
little bluestem 39
Schizachyrium scoparium
brome 40
Bromus
Mexican Feather Grass
Stipa tenuissima

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