Native range
Native plants of New Mexico
32 wild species and 16 plant groups in the BloomsEye library grow wild somewhere in New Mexico, read from Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS. The 77 garden forms of them are listed apart below, each naming its wild parent.
48 plants
How this list is made
Derived from each plant's native-range record, checked against Kew's World Checklist of Vascular Plants and USDA PLANTS with every decision on a ledger; New Mexico is read off the record's own range, and the order is how many of the state's counties record each plant, as stored in the BloomsEye library, which was written with AI assistance. Of these 48 plants, 34 have been checked against outside sources; the rest have not been checked yet, and each plant's own page says which. The cards are AI-generated illustrations.
Range data from the World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 4.0, adapted) and USDA PLANTS. How the native range is credited.
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Recorded across New Mexico
How many of the state's 33 counties record each wild species growing wild, from USDA PLANTS: a plant recorded in many counties is widespread in New Mexico; one recorded in few may be local, or simply under-recorded. A county's absence is not evidence a plant is absent. 29 of the wild species carry a county record here.
- Little Bluestem
- Sunflower
- Switchgrass
- Douglas Fir
- False Sunflower
- Potentilla
- Butterfly Weed
- Colorado Blue Spruce
- Cardinal Flower
- Rocky Mountain Blue
- Golden Columbine
- Lady Fern
- Prairie Smoke
- American Elderberry
- California Poppy
- New England Aster
- Yellow California Poppy
- Aromatic Aster
- Bunchberry
- California Fuchsia
- Apricot Lisianthus
- Blue Lisianthus
- Cream Lisianthus
- Eastern Redbud
- Lisianthus
- Picotee Lisianthus
- Pink Lisianthus
- Rose Lisianthus
- White Lisianthus
Garden forms of New Mexico natives
77 garden forms, each a named selection of a species that grows wild in New Mexico and each naming its wild parent. A garden form is not the wild plant, so it is listed here and never counted above.
- Abbotswood
- Adams Elderberry
- Alma Pötschke
- Alpine Carpet Juniper
- Appalachian Red
- Arctic Fire Red Twig Dogwood
- Arctic Fire Yellow Dogwood
- Athena Gold False Sunflower
- Autumn Beauty
- Autumn Colors
- Baby Blue
- Blackhawks Big Bluestem
- Blaze
- Blonde Ambition Blue Grama Grass
- Blue Arrow Juniper
- California Poppy (Cream/White)
- California Poppy (Rose/Pink Mix)
- Cherry Brandy
- Chicklet Gold Tecoma
- Claire Grace
- Denver Daisy
- Early Sunrise
- Fat Albert
- Flame Thrower
- Forest Pansy
- Giant Sunflower
- Globe Blue Spruce
- Goldfinger
- Goldilocks
- Gro-Low Fragrant Sumac
- Happy Face Yellow
- Hearts of Gold
- Heavy Metal
- Hoopsii
- Indian Summer
- Ivory Castle
- Lavender Twist
- Lemon Queen
- Lemony Lace Elderberry
- Luna Pink Swirl
- Luna White
- Mammoth
- Mango Tango
- McKay's White
- Mikado
- Montgomery
- Moulin Rouge
- New England Aster 'Barr's Pink'
- New England Aster 'Harrington's Pink'
- Northwind
- October Skies
- Orange Whisper
- Pink Beauty
- Pink Whisper
- Prairie Sun
- Purple Dome
- Purple Gleam
- QIS Orange
- Raydon's Favorite
- Red Ace
- Regent Serviceberry
- Ring of Fire
- River Mist
- Rose Chiffon
- Ruby Falls
- Shenandoah
- Skyrocket Juniper
- Snow Flurry
- Soraya
- Strawberry Blonde
- Strawberry Fields
- Tangerine
- Teddy Bear
- The Rising Sun
- Toto Gold
- Twilight Zone
- Velvet Queen
Plant groups native to New Mexico
16 plant groups sold under one name whose wild species grow in New Mexico; the count beside each is how many of its wild species the record finds in the state.
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