New Mexico Wildflowers: Green or Brown
Flowers are organized in alphabetical order by English family name, genus, and species. Click on a link to obtain additional photos of a species, plus comments. Those additional pages are bandwidth-intensive and best used with a high speed connection.
Please don't take my IDs as authoritative. These pages of nature photos represent one person's voyage of discovery, not the studies of a trained expert. If you see something I've misidentified, please contact me via my "Contact" page, which is tabbed at the top.
Amaranth Family, Mat Amaranth, Amaranthus blitoides
Amaranth Family, Careless Weed or Quelite, Amaranthus palmeri
Amaranth Family, Burningbush or Mexican Fireweed, Bassia scoparia
Amaranth Family, Goosefoot, Chenopodium
Amaranth Family, Prickly Russian Thistle or Tumbleweed, Salsola Tragus
Aster Family, Perennial Ragweed, Ambrosia psilostachya
Aster Family, Gumweed, Grindelia (this is not the flower but the bud)
Aster Family, Cocklebur, Xanthium strumarium
Buckwheat Family, Curly Dock, Rumex crispus
Buttercup Family, Fendler's Meadow-Rue (Thalictrum fendleri)
Cattail Family, Cattail, Typha
Dogbane Family, Broadleaf Milkweed, Asclepias latifolia
Gentian Family, Green Gentian, Frasera speciosa
Grape Family, Woodbine or Virginia Creeper, Parthenocissus
Grape Family, Canyon Grape, Vitis arizonica
Grass Family, Carrizo or Common Reed, Phragmites australis
Hackberry Family, Common Hop or Hops, Humulus lupulus
Heath Family, Sidebells (Orthilia secunda)
Heath Family, Green-Flower Wintergreen, Pyrola chlorantha
Honeysuckle Family, Teasel, Dipsacus fullonum (green flower head without flowers)
Honeysuckle Family, Tobacco Root, Valeriana edulis (light green flower heads, cream-colored corollas)
Plantain Family, Common Plantain, Plantago major
Potato Family, Frutilla or Pale Wolfberry, Lycium pallidum
Rue family, Common Hoptree, Ptelea trifoliata
Sedge Family, Bulrush or Tule or Club-Rush, Schoenoplectus acutus
Spurge Family, Texas Croton, Croton texensis
Sumac Family, Smooth Sumac, Rhus glabra (red fruit shown; flowers can be green or white)