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
choke cherry 7
Prunus virginiana
Tower Mustard 8
Turritis glabra
purslanes 9
Portulaca
puncture vine 10
Tribulus terrestris
mesquites 11
Prosopis
Red Bird of Paradise 12
Caesalpinia pulcherrima
Jupiter's-beard 13
Anthyllis barba-jovis
Desert False Indigo 14
Amorpha fruticosa
Purple Prairie Clover
Dalea purpurea
Siberian Elm 15
Ulmus pumila
milkweeds 16
Asclepias
Wild Buckwheats 17
Eriogonum
Salt Cedars 18
Tamarix
Amaranth 19
Amaranthus
tumbleweed
Salsola tragus
Dandelions 21
Taraxacum
Cockleburs 9
Xanthium
common sowthistle 22
Sonchus oleraceus
yellow salsify 23
Tragopogon dubius
New Mexico olive
Forestiera pubescens pubescens
Russian Sage
Perovskia atriplicifolia
Garden catmint
Nepeta × faassenii
Purple Wood Sage 24
Salvia nemorosa
English Plantain 25
Plantago lanceolata
Field Bindweed 26
Convolvulus arvensis
Rio Grande cottonwood 4
Populus deltoides wislizeni
Narrow-leaved Willow 15
Salix exigua exigua
Heliotrope 27
Heliotropium
yerba mansa 16
Anemopsis californica
London rocket 28
Sisymbrium irio
Western Tansy Mustard 15
Descurainia pinnata
golden currant 29
Ribes aureum
Thicket Creeper
Parthenocissus inserta
Virginia Creeper 30
Parthenocissus quinquefolia

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