WILDFLOWERS OF NEW MEXICO
WILDFLOWERS OF NEW MEXICO
Shrubs are compact, 2–4 feet tall and wide, erect to sprawling, unarmed, with bark peeling in strips; leaves small, palmately lobed, toothed. Note the showy, white flowers to 3/8 inch wide (10 mm) in dense, rounded clusters.
FLOWERS: May–July. Dense, rounded clusters to 1 5/8 inches wide (4 cm) with 9–25 white flowers, each 3/8 inch wide (10 mm), 5 small petals elliptic to rounded; stamens protrude above top of flower.
LEAVES: Alternate; stalked; blades broadly oval, 1/2–1 5/8 inches long (1.5–4 cm) with 3–5 rounded lobes; edges doubly toothed, surfaces hairless to sparsely hairy.
HABITAT: Well-drained canyon bottoms, mountain slopes, coniferous woods; pinyon-juniper foothills, ponderosa pine-Dogulas fir, spruce-fir forests.
ELEVATION: 6,500–10,000 feet (2000–3100 m).
RANGE: AZ, CO, MT, NV, NM, OK, SD, TX, UT, WY.
SIMILAR SPECIES: Cliffbush, Jamesia americana, does not have lobed leaves.
NM COUNTIES: New Mexico mountains in mid- to-high elevation, rocky habitats: Bernalillo, Catron, Cibola, Colfax, Dona Ana, Grant, Harding, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley, Mora, Otero, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Torrance, Union.
MOUNTAIN NINEBARK
PHYSOCARPUS MONOGUNUS
Rose Family, Rosaceae
Deciduous shrub
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Leaves are palmately lobed and lined with teeth.