WILDFLOWERS OF NEW MEXICO

 
 

Bees love the tiny white flowers of this densely-branching shrub reaching 5 feet (1.5 m) tall and wide. Note the short, hairy spikes of flowers, slender branches covered with fine hairs, twigs not thorn-tipped, and the small, deeply-veined, aromatic leaves.


FLOWER: August–October. Spikes densely hairy, 3/8–2 inches long (1–5 cm); flowers small, white, tubular, opening with 4 tiny, rounded lobes.


LEAVES: Opposite, often crowded, on slender stalks (petioles), highly aromatic; blade oval to rounded, 3/16–5/8 inch long (4–17 mm); edges round-toothed, upper surface deeply veined, lower with tangled, white hairs, tip rounded.


HABITAT: Dry rocky slopes, hills, canyons, brushlands; desert grasslands and scrub, pinyon-juniper woodlands.


ELEVATION: 1,500–6,000 feet (457–1829 m)


RANGE: AZ, CA, NM, TX, UT.


SIMILAR SPECIES: Whitebrush, A. gratissima, (TX) has linear to elliptical leaves without teeth and longer flower spikes.


NM COUNTIES: Widespread, common in southern half of NM in low-elevation, arid habitats: Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Dona Ana, Eddy, Grant, Hidalgo, Lincoln, Luna, Otero, San Miguel, Sierra, Socorro, Torrance, Valencia.

 

WRIGHT’S  BEEBRUSH

ALYOSIA  WRIGHTII

Verbena Family, Verbenaceae

Semi-evergreen shrub

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Oval leaves have rounded teeth and are heavily veined.

Tiny flowers have 4 rounded lobes above a hairy calyx (arrow).

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© Stan Stebs, CC

Shrubs are densely branched with slender stems.

Tiny tubular flowers grow in densely hairy spikes.