Found in open, sandy, gravelly soil
Seen blooming in April near the Rio Chama

This delicate plant grows from ½ to 4 inches high and is easily overlooked. It has 2 to 10 tiny flowers on candelabra-like stems. Leaves are hairy and succulent and grow in a basal rosette. The plant in the photo is barely 1 inch tall. It was used for postpartum hemorrhage, for internal pain, and as a life medicine. Source.

If you trying to identify a different flower then you can check what other flowers bloom this month. If you cannot identify a flower from the website send a photo and where you took it to contact@rockymountainsflora.com. Read online for tips.   

Found by roadsides
Seen blooming year round by Highway 84

​Sadly there are many Descancos by our roadsides but they are usually colorfully decorated with artificial flowers that are blooming year round. A Descanso is a roadside memorial that commemorates a site where a person died suddenly and unexpectedly. Descansos do not necessarily mark the place where the person died. Rather, it may indicate that an accident occurred at or near the site, but the person may have died elsewhere, such as in the hospital. Throughout the year, many Descansos are tended by friends or family members of the deceased. Some memorials are decorated for the holidays, with hearts for Valentine's Day, rabbits or baskets for Easter, trees or ribbons for Christmas, or birthday balloons, etc. In New Mexico, it is a criminal offense to damage a Descanso, and family notification is required before a memorial is removed.  Source.
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If you trying to identify a different flower then you can check what other flowers bloom this month. If you cannot identify a flower from the website send a photo and where you took it to contact@rockymountainsflora.com. Read online for tips.   

See what was blooming in the environs of Abiquiú every week in 2016, 2017 and 2018
or in the months of
March, April, May, June, July, August, September and October.
This is the month they appeared in the News, many flowers bloom over several weeks and months.

Found in dry, sunny, sandy areas
Seen blooming on October 7, 2018 at junction of 84 and 96
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The flowers blooming now have already appeared in the Bloom Blog but there are attractive seeds and berries to be found. The bright white branches of Winterfat are easily seen from a distance. The flowers are inconspicuous and bloom in spring and mid-summer, but from September to December the flowers turn into dense plumes of fluffy, woolly, white seed heads that cover the plants. Winterfat is a small shrub growing to 3 feet, often in colonies, and is long-lived (up to 130 years old) with white branches and silvery narrow whorled leaves. It is called Winterfat because of its nutritional importance as a fattening and nutritious winter browse for wildlife and livestock, especially sheep. It was used by Native Americans for fevers, for burns, sore muscles, for sores and boils, applied to poison ivy rashes, as an eye medicine, a dermatological aid and ceremonially. Source.

If you want to identify a different flower then you might find it useful to check what was blooming this time last year. If you cannot identify a flower from the website send a photo and where you took it to contact@rockymountainsflora.com. Read online for tips.    

Found in dry gravelly areas, hillsides
Seen blooming on October 1, 2018 in Red Wash Canyon

Unlike its smaller cousins this buckwheat is a perennial shrub growing to 4 feet tall and 5 feet wide with greyish, velvety leaves. Leaves are oblong to oval-shaped with crinkly, "crisped", edges. Tiny white to pink flowers grow in rounded clusters. Native Americans utilized boiled leaves and stalks mixed with cornmeal for bread or with salt for a dried cake. Leaves were also prepared to treat headaches. Source.

​If you want to identify a different flower then you might find it useful to check what was blooming this time last year. If you cannot identify a flower from the website send a photo and where you took it to contact@rockymountainsflora.com. Read online for tips.