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Barberry (Mahonia repens) • K Shrub up to 1' tall and 1' wide. Arizona fescue (Festuca arizonica) • Bunchgrass, 1–3' Leaves 2–3" long and 1–2" wide, New Mexico locust (Robina tall. Leaves (blades) tightly often mottled red, serrated neomexicana) • Shrub 5–30' tall rolled, appear cylindrical. Seed Ponderosa pine (Pinus edges, evDergreen. Flowers 5–20' wide. Stems light brown, yellow, maturing to blue berries. heads goldenL. ponderosa) • Tree up to 120' covered with thorns. Leaves 12" tall, 40' wide; much smaller in long, compund with 9–15 leaflets. thickets. Bark black, turning Buckbrush (Ceanothus fendlerii) Flowers whitHe–pink, ½" long in Pine dropseed (Blepharoneuron yellow with age, smells like • Shrub to 3' tall, 3' wide. clusters. Bean-like seedpods. tricholepis) • Bunchgrass, 6–8", vanilla. 2–3 nAeedles per cluster, Branches have small spines. leaf blades abundant, slender, cones 3–6" long. Leaves dark green, ½" long. Cliffrose (Purshia mexicana) • erect, SeedM heads blue-gray. Flowers whiEte, in tiny clumps. Shrub to 12', 8' wide, much Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii) Grows vigorously after fire. smaller in harsh conditions. Bark Mountain muhly (Muhlenbergia • Small tree to 8–50' tall, crown gray, shreddy. Leaves ½–¾" long, montana) • Bunchgrass 10–30" 5–30' wide. Leaves lobed. deeply lobed, white underneath. Woods' rose (Rosa woodsii)• I tall. Dead blades curl like wood Acorns 1" long. Bark gray, Flowers cream-colored, 1" wide. Shrub 1–6' tall and 3–6' wide. shavings. Seed heads blue-grey. checkered to flakey. N B Leaves 2" long, compound with Fruits feather-tailed, clustered. 5–9 leaflets, serrated edges. Squirreltail (Elymus elymoides) Flowers pink, 2" wide, five Mountain mahogany (Cerco- Juniper (Juniperus spp.) • Tree • Perennial grass up to 20" tall petals, matuFring to red rosehips, carpus montanus) • Shrub to 9'. 20–40' high, 5–20' wide. and 15" wide. Leaf blades come ½" long. Thorns to 1/3" long. Leaves dark green, leathery, to Needles short, scaly. Cones from base of , generally ("berries") round, red or purple, ½" long. FloweJrs yellow and red, smooth. SeeOd heads resemble a ½" diameter, smell of gin. Skunkbush sumac (Rhus trumpet-shaped, 2" long. "bottlebrush," seeds 1–3" long. juniper: barCk shaggy. Rocky trilobata). • Shrub up to 7' tall. Mt., one-seed juniper: bark Leaves 1–2", lobed. Flowers Wax currant (Ribes cereum) • Cheatgrass (Broums tectorum) scaly. Alligator juniper: bark yellow-white in small clusters, Shrub to 4' tall. Red or tan • Grass to 2'. Blades emerge in checkered. maturing to sGticky red berries. twigs. Leaves lobed, ¾–1½" fall. Seedheads red/purple, long. BerriesK red, waxy. drooping. Rapid spring growth, matures befoPre other grasses; Trees, shrubs, and grasses invasive species

Produced for the USDA Forest Service Collaborative Forest Restoration Program multi-party monitoring teams. Research and compilation Joe Trudeau, Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI); design and production Joel Viers, ERI. Funded by USDA Forest Service. Illustrations provided by and copyright © Robert DeWitt Ivey, Zackery Zdinak, Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton, Scott Sink. No reproduction without written permission. Plants of New Mexico Ponderosa pine forests

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Locoweed (Oxytropis lambertii) Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) • Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) • • ¾" long purple pea-like Feathery leaves 2–6" long, ½" Readily invades disturbed sites Fleabane (Erigeron spp.) • flowers in clusters to 9" tall. wide in rosettes of many leaves. but only persists for a few Many species. Small white, Leaves to 5" long with 11–17 White flat-topped clusters of years. First year forms basal fuzzy leaflets, sometimes flowers on stDalk 6–20" tall. pink, or light purple flowers with rosette of large soft, fuzzy appearing grAay. Seedstalk turns leaves, second year sends up numerous nKarrow petals and pale yellow and stays standing Bracken fern (Pteridium seed stalk to 7' high. Hundreds yellow center. after releasing seed. aquilinum) • A large fern, to 3' of bright Hyellow flowers tall. Fronds triangular, usually maturing to round seed pods of Purple geranium (Geranium with three leaflets with many Rocky Mountain iris, blue flag tiny black seeds. Seed stalk caespitosum) • Pink or purple tiny leaves. Grows in large (Iris missouriensis) • Common dries to a stout brown shaft that flowers; up to 10" tall; few colonies in fields, brushy areas, in moist sites, and into the persists through winter. flowers per plant. Thin creeping and woods. Thick root-like mixed conifer zone. Showy stems, often red. Leaves five- underground stems, to 6' long; Silvery lupine (Lupinus purplish petals and white sepals E lobed, smellyL when crushed, red many fronds may grow from argenteus) • Branching flowers with blue stripes on round stem in autumn. each stem. Vigorous after to 3' tall. Leaves fuzzy when to 24" tall. Long, narrow leaves B disturbance. Cover for small young; 5–9 narrow lobes; pea- from base of plant. Grows in M o u n t a i n p a r s l e y animals and emerging plants. like flowers in tall clusters; groups. Growth depends on purple. AggresIsive growth after (Pseudocymopterus montanus) adequate snowfall. fire. • Up to 30" tall. Yellow flowers Whitemargin pussytoes in flat-topped clusters. Leaves Pingue rubber weed Scarlet gilia, skyrocket ( marginata) • Small green, broad, feathery, with (Hymenoxys richardsonii) • To (Ipomopsis aggregato) • Bright plant lying close to ground many poinMted lobes. Strong 12" tall, several to dozens of red, trumpet-shaped flowers forming mats. Necktie shaped scent. woody stems in a bunch, wooly along stalk to 3' tall. Dark green leaves ½–1" long, slightly hairy at base. Yellow daisy-like leaves with narrow lobes. First underneath, with a white F flowers ½" wide maturing to * Cronquist, A. and A. H. Holmgren, N. H. year it consists of leaves close J Holmgren, J. L. Reveal and P. K. Holmgren. appearance. White clusters of C wooly tufts of seeds. Very 1994. Intermountain Flora Vascular Plants of the to the ground, second year it flowers on stalks 2–4" tall. narrow leaves, poisonous to Intermountain West, USA. The New York grows higher and then flowers. Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY. Volume 5. livestock. Wildflowers

Produced for the USDA Forest Service Collaborative Forest Restoration Program multi-party monitoring teams. Research and compilation Joe Trudeau, Ecological Restoration Institute (ERI); design and production Joel Viers, ERI. Funded by USDA Forest Service. Illustrations provided by and copyright © Robert DeWitt Ivey, Zackery Zdinak, Lucretia Breazeale Hamilton. No reproduction without written permission. www.eri.nau.edu.