AUGUST : purple coneflower : Echinacea purpurea
Scientific name: Echinacea purpurea Common name: purple coneflower Family: Asteraceae Article by Susan Bruneni The purple coneflower is a true native North American plant, growing [...]
Scientific name: Echinacea purpurea Common name: purple coneflower Family: Asteraceae Article by Susan Bruneni The purple coneflower is a true native North American plant, growing [...]
This month's plant of the month article will introduce the newest part of Santa Fe Botanical Garden, the Piñon-Juniper Woodland, a characteristic community of two-needle [...]
Scientific name: Common names: Viola canadensis Canadian white violet, Canada violet, tall white violet Viola adunca dog violet, hooked spur violet, early blue violet, sand [...]
Scientific Name: Euphorbia myrsinites Common name: myrtle spurge Family: Euphorbiaceae Article by Susan Bruneni Myrtle spurge can claim notoriety for two very opposite traits. On [...]
Scientific Names: Phlox nana Nutt. and Phlox nana ‘Perfect Pink’ Suggested pronunciation: floks NAN-uh Common names: Santa Fe phlox, white-eyed phlox, canyon phlox, Santa Fe phlox [...]
Scientific name: Pinus edulis Engelm. Synonym: P. cembroides var. edulis (Engelm.) Voss Suggested pronunciation: PY-nus Ed-yew-liss Common names: piñon pine, pinyon pine, two-needle pinyon, Colorado [...]
Scientific Name: Phoradendron juniperinum Engelm. Common name: juniper mistletoe Family: Santalaceae (sandalwoods) Credit: Paul Asman and Jill Lenoble, Phoradendron juniperinum on juniper (Juniperus monosperma), [...]
Scientific name: Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. Suggested pronunciation: boo-te-LOO-uh kurt-ih-PEN-dyoo-luh Varieties: B. curtipendula var. curtipendula and B. curtipendula var. caespitosa Suggested pronunciation of varieties: kurt-ih-PEN-dyoo-luh, [...]
Scientific genus name: Schlumbergera Suggested pronunciation: schlum-BER-ger-uh Common names: Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter cactus Photo credit: Flickr, "Cactus de Noël" by Jacques Mignon (CC BY [...]
Scientific name: Pinus heldreichii Christ Synonym: Pinus leucodermis Common name: Bosnian pine Family: Pinaceae Article by Susan Bruneni "Adonis", the 1,000+ year old Bosnian [...]