New Mexico Wildflowers: Red to Pink
Your pink may be my lavender! If so, the flower you're looking on may be shown on a different page. Also, I may put a flower on this page even if the touches of red or pink are modest ones.
Flowers are shown 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.
Aster Family, Blanketflower or Firewheel, Gaillardia sp.
Aster Family, Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat, Ratibida columnifera
Bignonia Family, Desert Willow, Chilopsis linearis (ranges from pink to purple)
Buckwheat Family, Pale Smartweed, Persicaria lapathifolia (can also be white)
Buckwheat Family, Pennsylvania Smartweed or Pinkweed, Persicaria pensylvanica (can also be white)
Buttercup Family, Red Columbine, Aquilegia desertorum or elegantula
Cactus Family, Claret Cup Cactus, Echinocereus
Cactus Family, Prickly Pear, Opuntia polycantha var. juniperina?
Dogbane Family, Dogbane, Apocynum
Evening Primrose Family, Fireweed, Chamerion angustifolium (can be more purple)
Evening Primrose Family, Scarlet Gaura, Oenothera suffrutescens, New Mexico (can also be white)
Evening Primrose Family, Linda Tarde or Small-Flowered Gaura, Oenothera curtiflora
Figwort Family, Paintbrush, Castilleja
Figwort Family, Fernleaf or Giant Louswort, Pedicularis procera
Figwort Family, Scarlet Bugler, Penstemon barbatus
Figwort Family, Mountain Figwort, Scrophularia montana
Four O'Clock Family, Creeping Spiderling, Boerhavia torreyana
Heath Family, Pinesaps, Monotropa hypopitys
Honeysuckle Family, Snowberry, Symphoricarpos rotundifolius
Mallow Family, Globemallow, Sphaeralcea (usually orange)
Morning Glory Family, Field Bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis (can also be all-white or more lavender)
Morning Glory Family, Trans-Pecos Morning Glory, Ipomoea cristulata
Mustard Family, Western Wallflower, Erysimum capitatum
Pea Family, New Mexico Locust, Robinia neomexicana
Pea Family, Alkali Swainsonspea, Sphaerophysa salsula (seed pods shown)
Poppy Family, Common or Corn Poppy, Papaver rhoeas
Saxifrage Family, Coralbells, Heuchera pulchella
Spurge Family, Sonoran Sandmat, Euphorbia micromera
Spurge Family, Prostrate Sandmat, Euphorbia prostrata
Tamarisk Family, Tamarisk or Salt Cedar, Tamarix
Valerian Family, Arizona Valerian, Valeriana arizonica