Found in disturbed soil, moist areas
Seen blooming in September near the Rio Chama

The brilliantly colored Tall Morning Glory is a native of Mexico and Central America and has escaped to the wild from cultivation in the USA. It can grow to 10 feet long, creeping, climbing and twining around other plants, fences and trees. The leaves are heart-shaped or have three to five lobes and the stems are covered with brown hairs. The flower is trumpet shaped and up to 2½ inches across with five petals that are usually blue, purple, pink, or some combination of these colors, with a white throat. The flowers open in the morning and close in the afternoon. Native American use is not recorded but it is used in Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine as an anthelmintic, diuretic and laxative, and in the treatment of various mental disorders. Source.

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Found in disturbed soil, gravel slopes, roadsides
Seen blooming in September above Abiquiu Lake

Ragleaf Bahia grows to three feet tall in an open, airy form. Stems are reddish, spreading and leafless. Flowers are about one inch across. The ray flowers overlap and are rounded and slightly notched. The leaves are mostly at the base of the stem and divided into fine lobes. Traditionally, an infusion of the plant was used as a cathartic, emetic, contraceptive, to ease menstrual pain, and for headache, rheumatism and arthritis. Source.

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Found in dry meadows, roadsides
Seen blooming in August near Hwy 554, Abiquiu

Narrowleaf Four O'Clock grows to 40 inches tall in clumps with an open spreading habit. Leaves are long, narrow and grayish-green up to 4 inches long. Funnel-shaped flowers are ½ inch across with showy stamens and range from white to pink to purple, growing in clusters of three. The leaves and stems are covered in fine hairs. Each small cluster of flowers is surrounded by a bell-shaped involucre which is pale green, sticky-hairy and sometimes purple-tinged. In fruit this inflates and becomes papery and veined and one inch across, resembling a tiny umbrella which gives it another common name, Umbrellawort; wort is an old English name for plant. Traditionally, fruits and seeds were used for food; an infusion of roots was used to treat painful urination, stomach disorders, coughs, and burns. It was also used ceremonially as a life medicine and for good luck in trading or hunting. Source.
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Found on dry, sandy slopes
Seen blooming in August on the Madera Trail, Santa Fe NF

This tiny wildflower has a very big name, which for me conjures up a character in a fairy tale. Shaggy Dwarf Morning Glory grows 4 to 6 inches high, erect and spreading, with densely hairy greyish-green leaves. The tiny lavender blue flowers are funnel-shaped and less than ½ inch across with a large, white, 5-pointed star in the center. The flowers close in the evening and remain closed on cloudy days. The plants are wider than they are tall. Shaggy Dwarf Morning Glory can be found blooming in May and after the monsoons. The Navajo sometimes used this plant as a snuff to induce sneezing. Source.

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Found in dry, gravelly soil, roadsides
Seen blooming in August near Abiquiu Lake

Drummond's False Pennyroyal grows with many branches from a few inches to 15 inches high covered in hairs. Leaves are narrow and smell of mint when crushed. Tiny flowers grow from the leaf axils and are no more than ½ inch long. Flowers are rose-pink to pale lavender with purple streaks and a white throat. Traditionally, it was used as an analgesic; taken for influenza; and the leaves used to flavor soup. Source.

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