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.
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.
Arrowgrass Family, Arrowgrass, Triglochin maritima
Aster Family, Blanketflower or Firewheel, Gaillardia sp.
Aster Family, Prairie Coneflower or Mexican Hat, Ratibida columnifera
Bignonias Family, Trumpet Creeper, Campsis radicans
Bignonias Family, Desert Willow, Chilopsis linearis (ranges from pink to purple)
Broomrape Family, Indian Paintbrush, Castilleja
Broomrape Family, Fernleaf or Giant Louswort, Pedicularis procera
Buckwheat Family, Pale Smartweed, Persicaria lapathifolia (can also be white)
Buckwheat Family, Pennsylvania Smartweed or Pinkweed, Persicaria pensylvanica (can also be white)
Buckwheat Family, Canaigre, Rumex hymenosepalus
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, Mountain Figwort, Scrophularia montana
Four O'Clock Family, Creeping Spiderling, Boerhavia torreyana
Heath Family, Pinesaps, Monotropa hypopitys
Honeysuckle Family, Snowberry, Symphoricarpos rotundifolius (sometimes white)
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
Orchid Family, Striped Coralroot Orchid, Corallorhiza striata
Pea Family, Eastern Redbud, Cercis canadensis
Pea Family, New Mexico Locust, Robinia neomexicana
Pea Family, Alkali Swainsonspea, Sphaerophysa salsula
Phlox Family, Skyrockets or Rockets, Ipomopsis aggregata
Plantain Family, Scarlet Bugler, Penstemon barbatus
Plantain Family, Pineleaf Penstemon, Penstemon pinifolius
Poppy Family, Long-Headed Poppy or Blindeyes, Papaver dubium
Poppy Family, Common or Corn Poppy, Papaver rhoeas
Rose Family, Wood's Rose, Rosa woodsii
Saxifrage Family, Coralbells, Heuchera pulchella
Spurge Family, Sonoran Sandmat, Euphorbia micromera
Spurge Family, Prostrate Sandmat, Euphorbia prostrata
Staff Vine or Bittersweet Family, Mountain Lover or Oregon Boxleaf, Paxistima myrsinites (foliage shown)
Tamarisk Family, Tamarisk or Salt Cedar, Tamarix
Unicorn Plant Family, Devil's Claw, Proboscidea parviflora
Valerian Family, Arizona Valerian, Valeriana arizonica