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Photographs of the park features, fauna & flora, hikes and activities.

THE HERBARIUM AT CERRILLOS HILLS STATE PARK

The herbarium currently houses approximately 750 voucher specimens representing most of the known flora found in Cerrillos Hills State Park and Hyde Memorial State Park. Specimens are mounted on 100% acid-free rag paper and stored in a professional herbarium case.

The use of the herbarium is open to anyone interested in the floras of these parks. The examination and annotation of specimens by professional taxonomists is welcomed. Please contact the Park office to schedule use of the herbarium.

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• Birds & Animals
• Plants
• Events
• Trails & Features

• Banana Yucca

  AGAVACEAE - Yucca baccata
• Narrow leaf Yucca

  AGAVACEAE - Yucca baileyi v. intermedia
• Large Flowered Onion

  ALLIACEAE - Allium macropetalum
• Careless Weed

  AMARANTHACEAE - Amaranthus palmeri
• Burning Bush

  AMARANTHACEAE - Kochia scoparia
• Winter Fat

  AMARANTHACEAE - Kraschenikoivia lanata
• Russian Thistle (Tumbleweed)

  AMARANTHACEAE - Salsola tragus
• Woolly Tidestromia

  AMARANTHACEAE - Tidestromia lanuginosa
• Skunkbush

  ANACARDIACEAE - Rhus trilobata
• Fendler's Spring Parsley

  APIACEAE - Cymopterus glomeratus v. fendleri
• Antelope Horn

  ASCLEPIDACEAE - Asclepias asperula
• Broadleaf Milkweed

  ASCLEPIDACEAE - Asclepias latifloia
• Longhood Milkweed

  ASCLEPIDACEAE - Asclepias macrotis
• Zizotes Milkweed

  ASCLEPIDACEAE - Asclepias oenotheroides
• Horsetail milkweed

  ASCLEPIDACEAE - Asclepias subverticillata
• Green Comet Milkweed

  ASCLEPIDACEAE - Asclepias viridiflora
• Prairie Agoseris

  ASTERACEAE - Agoseris glauca
• Ragleaf Bahia

  ASTERACEAE - Amauriopsis dissecta
• Bluntscale Bahia

  ASTERACEAE - Amauriopsis pedata
• Weakleaf Bur Ragweed

  ASTERACEAE - Ambrosia confertiflora
• Singlewhorl Burrowbrush

  ASTERACEAE - Ambrosia monogyra
• Bigelow Sagebrush

  ASTERACEAE - Artemesia bigelovii
• Sand Sagebrush

  ASTERACEAE - Artemesia filifolia
• Fringed Sagebush

  ASTERACEAE - Artemesia frigida
• White Sagebrush

  ASTERACEAE - Artemesia ludoviciana
• Desert Marigold

  ASTERACEAE - Baileya multiradiata
• Chocolate Flower

  ASTERACEAE - Berlandiera lyrata
• Plumed Brickelbush

  ASTERACEAE - Brickellia brachyphylla
• California Brickelbush

  ASTERACEAE - Brickellia californica
• False Boneset

  ASTERACEAE - Brickellia eupatorioides
• Rose Heath

  ASTERACEAE - Chaetopappa ericoides
• New Mexico Thistle

  ASTERACEAE - Cirsium neomexicanum
• Gray Thistle

  ASTERACEAE - Cirsium undulatum
• Horseweed

  ASTERACEAE - Conyza canadensis
• Hoary Tansyaster

  ASTERACEAE - Dieteria canescens
• Chamisa

  ASTERACEAE - Ericameria nauseosa var. latisquamea
• Spreading Fleabane

  ASTERACEAE - Erigeron divergens
• Trailing Fleabane

  ASTERACEAE - Erigeron flagellaris
• Red Dome Blanketflower

  ASTERACEAE - Gaillardia pinnatifida
• Curlytop Gumweed

  ASTERACEAE - Grindelia squarrosa
• Broom Snakeweed

  ASTERACEAE - Gutierrezia sarothrae
• Hairy False Goldenaster

  ASTERACEAE - Heterotheca vilosa
• Columbia cutleaf

  ASTERACEAE - Hymenopappus filifolius
• Southern Jimmyweed

  ASTERACEAE - Isocoma pleuriflora
• Tahoka Daisy

  ASTERACEAE - Machaerantha tanacetifolia
• Desert Dandelion

  ASTERACEAE - Malacothrix fendleri
• Blackfoot Daisy

  ASTERACEAE - Melampodium leucantheum
• Mariola

  ASTERACEAE - Parthenium incanum
• Lemonscent

  ASTERACEAE - Pectis angustifolia
• Oppositeleaf Bahia

  ASTERACEAE - Picradeniopsis oppositifolia
• Wooly Paperflower

  ASTERACEAE - Psilostrophe tagetina
• Mexican Hat

  ASTERACEAE - Ratibida columnifera
• Albert's Creeping Zinnia

  ASTERACEAE - Sanvitalia abertii
• Threadleaf

  ASTERACEAE - Schkuhria multiflora
• Threadleaf Groundsel

  ASTERACEAE - Senecio flacidus
• Riddell's Ragwort

  ASTERACEAE - Senecio riddellii
• Sow Thistle

  ASTERACEAE - Sonchus asper
• Few Flowered Wirelettuce

  ASTERACEAE - Stephanomeria pauciflora
• Smooth Blue Aster

  ASTERACEAE - Symphylotrichum laeve
• White Aster

  ASTERACEAE - Symphyotrichum ericoides
• Common Dandelion

  ASTERACEAE - Taraxicum officinale
• Perky Sue

  ASTERACEAE - Tetraneuris argenta
• Hopi Tea Green Thread

  ASTERACEAE - Thelesperma megapotamicum
• Prickly leaf Dogweed

  ASTERACEAE - Thymophylla acerosa
• Stemless Towsend Daisy

  ASTERACEAE - Towsendia excapa
• Tall Towsend Daisy

  ASTERACEAE - Towsendia eximia
• Western Goat's Beard

  ASTERACEAE - Tragopogon dubius
• Cowpen Daisy

  ASTERACEAE - Verbesina encelioides
• Slender Goldenweed

  ASTERACEAE - Xanthisma gracile
• Spiny Goldenweed

  ASTERACEAE - Xanthisma spinulosum
• Cocklebur

  ASTERACEAE - Xanthium strumarium
• Rocky Mountain Zinnia

  ASTERACEAE - Zinna grandiflora
• Red Barberry

  BERBERIDACEAE - Berberis haematocarpa
• James' Cryptantha

  BORAGINACEAE - Cryptantha cinera v. jamesii
• Thicksepal catseye

  BORAGINACEAE - Cryptantha crassisepalea
• Narrowleaf Puccoon

  BORAGINACEAE - Lithospermum incisum
• Fendler's Rockcress

  BRASSICACEAE - Boechera fendleri
• Blunt Tansymustard

  BRASSICACEAE - Descurainia obtusa
• Spectlepod

  BRASSICACEAE - Dimorphocarpa wislizeni
• Western Wallflower

  BRASSICACEAE - Erysimum capitatum
• Slimleaf Plains Mustard

  BRASSICACEAE - Hesperidanthus linerifolius
• Mesa Pepperwort

  BRASSICACEAE - Lepidium alyssoides
• Fendler's Bladderpod

  BRASSICACEAE - Physaria fendleri
• Roundleaf Bladderpod

  BRASSICACEAE - Physaria ovalifolia
• White Mountain Bladderpod

  BRASSICACEAE - Physaria pinetorum
• Straight Bladderpod

  BRASSICACEAE - Physaria rectipes
• Tumble Mustard

  BRASSICACEAE - Sisymbrium altissimum
• Wright's Thelopody

  BRASSICACEAE - Thelypodium wrightii
• Behive Cactus

  CACTACEAE - Coryphantha vivipara
• Cane Cholla

  CACTACEAE - Cylindropuntia imbricata
• Scarlet Hedgehog

  CACTACEAE - Echinocereus coccineus
• Fendler's Hedgehog

  CACTACEAE - Echinocereus fendleri
• Nylon Hedgehog

  CACTACEAE - Echinocereus viridiflorus
• Club Cholla

  CACTACEAE - Grusonia clavata
• Wright's Nipple Cactus

  CACTACEAE - Mammillaria wrightii
• Plains Prickly Pear

  CACTACEAE - Opuntia phaeacantha
• Starvation Prickly Pear

  CACTACEAE - Opuntia polyacantha
• Four-wing Saltbush

  CHENOPODIACEAE - Atriplex canescens
• Lamb's Quarters

  CHENOPODIACEAE - Chenopodium album
• Fremont's Goosefoot

  CHENOPODIACEAE - Chenopodium fremontii
• Mealy Goosefoot

  CHENOPODIACEAE - Chenopodium incanum
• Mexican Tea

  CHEHOPODIACEAE - Dysphania gravoelens
• Rocky Mountain Beeplant

  CLEOMACEAE - Peritoma serrulata
• Red-whisker Clammyweed

  CLEOMACEAE - Polanisia dodecandra
• Field Bindweed

  CONVOLVULACEAE - Convolvulas arvensis
• Shaggy Dwarf Morning-glory

  CONVOLVULACEAE - Evolvulus nutallianus
• Trans-Pecos Morning-glory

  CONVOLVULACEAE - Ipomoea cristulata
• Trans-Pecos Morning-glory

  CONVOLVULACEAE - Ipomoea cristulata var. hederifolia
• Buffalo Gourd

  CUCURBITACEAE - Cuburbita foetidissima
• One-seed Juniper

  CUPRESSACEAE - Juniperus monosperma
• Common three-square

  CYPERACEAE - Schoenoplectus pungens
• Russian Olive

  ELAEAGNACEAE - Elaeagnus angustifolia
• Tprrey's Mormon Tea

  EPHEDRACEAE -Ephedra torreyana
• Fendler's Sandmat

  EUPHORBIACEAE - Chamaesyce fendleri
• Prairie Sandmat

  EUPHORBIACEAE - Chamaesyce missurica
• Thymeleaf Sandmat

  EUPHORBIACEAE - Chamaesyce serpyllifolia
• Texas Croton

  EUPHORBIACEAE - Croton texensis
• Squareseed Spurge

  EUPHORBIACEAE - Euphorbia exstipulata
• Branched Noseburn

  EUPHORBIACEAE - Tragia ramosa
• Crescent Milkvetch

  FABACEAE - Astragalus amphioxys
• Spotted Locoweed

  FABACEAE - Astragalus lentiginosus
• Missouri Milkvetch

  FABACEAE - Astragalus missouriensis
• Small Flower Milkvetch

  FABACEAE - Astragalus nutalianus
• Stinking Milvetch

  FABACEAE - Astragalus praelongus
• Fort Bowie Prairie Clover

  FABACEAE - Dalea brachystachya
• White Prairie Clover

  FABACEAE - Dalea candida
• Featherplume

  FABACEAE - Dalea formosa
• James' Prairie Clover

  FAABACEAE - Dalea jamesii
• Cooley's Bundleflower

  FABACEAE - Desmanthus cooleyi
• American Licorice

  FABACEAE - Glycyrrhiza lepidota
• Hog Potato

  FABACEAE - Hoffmannseggia drepanocarpa
• Bush Vetchling

  FABACEAE - Lathyrus eucosmus
• Alfalfa

  FABACEAE - Medicago sativa
• White Sweet Clover

  FABACEAE - Melilotus albus
• Yellow Sweet Clover

  FABACEAE - Melilotus officinalis
• Gambel's Oak

  FAGACEAE - Quercus gambelii
• Grey Oak

  FAGACEAE - Quercus grisea
• Sonoran Scrub Oak

  FAGACEAE - Quercus turbinella
• Wavy Oak

  FAGACEAE - Quercus x undulata
• Golden Smoke

  FUMARIACEAE - Corydalis aurea
• Stork's Bill

  GERANIACEAE - Erodium cicutarium
• Sand Bells

  HYDROPHYLLACEAE - Nama hispidum
• Scorpion Flower

  HYDROPHYLLACEAE - Phacelia integrifolia
• Stiff Blue-eyed Grass

  IRIDACEAE - Sisyrinchium demisum
• Mexican Rush

  JUNCACEAE - Juncus arcticus var. mexicanus
• Torrey's Juncus

  JUNCACEAE - Juncus torreyi
• Dentate False Pennyroyal

  LAMIACEAE - Hedeoma dentata
• Drummond's False Pennyroyal

  LAMIACEAE - Hedeoma drummondii
• Common Horehound

  LAMIACEAE Marrubium vulgare
• Pony Beebalm

  LAMIACEAE - Monarda pectinata
• Cutleaf Germander

  LAMIACEAE - Teucrium lacinatum
• Plains Flax

  LINACEAE - Linum puberulum
• Small-flowered Blazing Star

  LOASACEAE - MENTZELIA ALBACAULIS
• Desert Blazing Star

  LOASACEAE - Mentzelia multiflora
• Copper Globemallow

  MALVACEAE - Sphaeralcea angustifolia
• Scarlet Globemallow

  MALVACEAE - Sphaeralcea coccinea
• Grey Globemallow

  MALVACEAE - Sphaeralcea incana
• Sweet Sand Verbena

  NYCTAGINACEAE - Abronia fragrans
• Trailing Four O'Clock

  NYCTAGINACEAE - Allionia choisyi
• Trailing Windmills

  NYCTAGINACEAE - Allionia incarnata
• Torrey's Spiderling

  NYCTAGINACEAE - Boerhavia torreyana
• Narrow Leaf Four O'Clock

  NYCTAGINACEAE - Mirabilis linearis
• Colorado Four O'Clock

  NYCTAGINACEAE - Mirabilis multiflora
• Heartleaf Four O'Clock

  NYCTAGINACEAE - Mirabilis nyctaginea
• Spreading Four O'clock

  NYCTAGINACEAE - Mirabilis oxybaphoides
• Desert Olive

  OLEACEAE - Forestiera neomexicana
• Bull's Balls

  OLEACEAE - Menodora scabra
• Tufted Evening Primrose

  ONAGRACEAE - Oenothera caespitosa
• Velvet Weed

  ONAGRACEAE - Oenothera curtiflora
• Scarlet Gaura

  ONAGRACEA - Oenothera suffrutescens
• Canyon Bog Orchid

  ORCHIDACEAE - PLATANTHERA SPARSIFLORA
• Wholeleaf Indian Paintbrush

  OROBANCHACEAE - CASTILLEJA INTEGRA
• Bird's Beak

  OROBANCHACEAE - CORDYLANTHUS WRIGHTII
• Pinon

  PINACEAE - PINUS EDULIS
• Viny Snapdragon

  PLANTAGANACEAE - MAURANDYA ANTIRRHINIFLORA
• Scarlet Bugler

  PLANTAGANACEAE - PENSTEMON BARBATUS
• Sidebells Penstemon

  PLANTAGANACEAE - PENSTEMON SECUNDIFLORUS
• Broadleaf Plantain

  PLANTAGANACEAE - PLANTAGO MAJOR
• Woolly Plantain

  PLANTAGANACEAE - PLANTAGO PATAGONICA
• Indian Ricegrass

  POACEAE - ACHNATHERUM HYMENOIDES
• New Mexico Needlegrass

  POACEAE - ACHNATHERUM PERPLEXUM
• Creeping Bentgrass

  POACEAE - AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA
• Sixweeks Three-awn

  POACEAE - ARISTIDA ADSECENSIONIS
• Purple Three-awn

  POACEAE - ARISTIDA PURPUREA
• Fendler's Three-awn

  POACEAE - ARISTIDA PURPUREA VAR. LONGISETA
• Silver Beardgrass

  POACEAE - BOTHRIOCHLOA LAGUROIDES
• Springfield's Beardgrass

  POACEAE - BOTHRIOCHLOA SPRINGFIELDII
• Needle Grama

  POACEAE - BOUTELOUA ARISTIDOIDES
• Six-weeks Grama

  POACEAE - BOUTELOUA BARBATA
• Sideoats Grama

  POACEAE - BOUTELOUA CURTIPENDULA
• Black Grama

  POACEAE - BOUTELOUA ERIPODA
• Blue Grama

  POACEAE - BOUTELOUA GRACILIS
• Hairy Grama

  POACEAE - BOUTELOUS HIRSUTA
• Rescue Grass

  POACEAE - BROMUS CATHARTICUS
• Field Brome

  POACEAE - BROMUS JAPONICAS
• Wooly Brome

  POACEAE - BROMUS LANATIPES
• Cheat Grass

  POACEAE - BROMUS TECTORUM
• Feather Fingergrass

  POACEAE - CHLORIS VIRGATA
• Fluff Grass

  POACEAE - DASYCHLOA PULCHELLA
• Saltgrass

  POACEAE - DISTICHLIS SPICATA
• Squirreltail

  POACEAE - ELYMUS LONGIFOLIUS
• Western Wheatgrass

  POACEAE - ELYMUS SMITHII
• Nineawn Pappusgrass

  POACEAE - ENNEAPOGON DESVAUXII
• Mediterranean Love grass

  POACEAE - ERAGROSTIS BARRELIERI
• Stink grass, Candy grass

  POACEAE - ERAGROSTIS CILIANENSIS
• Hairy Wollygrass

  POACEAE - ERIONEURON PILOSUM
• Meadow Fescue

  POACEAE - FESTUCA PRATENSIS
• New Mexico Feathergrass

  POACEAE - HESPEROSTIPA NEOMEXICANA
• Vine Mesquite

  POACEAE - HOPIA OBTUSA
• Foxtail Barley

  POACEAE - HORDEUM JUBATUM
• Wall Barley

  POACEAE - HORDEUM MURINUM VAR. GLAUCUM
• Common Wolfstail

  POACEAE - LYCURUS PHELOIDES
• Bristly Wolfstail

  POACEAE - LYCURUS SETOSUS
• Scratchgrass

  POACEAE - MUEHLENBERGIA ASPERIFOLIA
• New Mexico Muhly

  POACEAE - MUEHLENBERGIA PAUCIFLORA
• Bush Muhly

  POACEAE - MUHLENBERGIA PORTERI
• Ring Muhly

  POACEAE - MUHLENBERGIA TORREYI
• False Buffalo Grass

  POACEAE - MUNROA SQUARROSA
• Kleingrass

  POACEAE - PANICUM COLORATUM
• James' Galleta

  POACEAE - PLEURAPHIS JAMESII
• Annual Rabbitsfoot Grass

  POACEAE - POLYPOGON MONSPELIENSES
• Beardless Rabbitsfoot Grass

  POACEAE - POLYPOGON VIRIDIS
• Little Bluestem

  POACEAE - SCHIZACHYRIUM SCOPARIUM
• Green Bristlegrass

  POACEAE - SERTARIA VIRIDIS
• Sorghum, Milo

  POACEAE - SORGHUM BICOLOR
• Alkali Sacaton

  POACEAE - SPOROBOLUS AIROIDES
• Spike Dropseed

  POACEAE - SPOROBOLUS CONTRACTUS
• Sand Dropseed

  POACEAE - SPOROBOLUS CRYPTANDRUS
• Sand Dune Ipomopsis

  POLEMONIACEAE - Ipomopsis gunnisonii
• Long-flowered Gilia

  POLEMONIACEAE - Ipomopsis longiflora
• Abert's Buckwheat

  POLYGONACEAE - Eriogonum abertianum
• Winged Buckwheat

  POLYGONACEAE - Eriogonum alatum
• Crispleaf Buckwheat

  POLYGONACEAE - Eriogonum corymbosum
• James' Buckwheat

  POLYGONACEAE - Eriogonum jamesii
• Sorrel Buckwheat

  POLYGONACEAE - Eriogonum polycladon
• Roundleaf Buckwheat

  POLYGONACEAE - Eriogonum rotundifolium
• Curly Dock

  POLYGONACEAE - Rumex crispus
• Silkcotton Purslane

  PORTULACACEAE - Portulaca halimoides
• Common Purslane

  PORTULACACEAE - Portulaca oleracea
• Slender Lip-fern

  PTERIDACEAE - Cheilanthes feei
• Mountain Mahogony

  ROSACEAE - Cerocarpus montanus
• Apache Plume

  ROSACEAE - Fallugia paradoxa
• Cliffrose

  ROSACEAE - Purshia stansburyana
• Red Bluet

  RUBIACEAE - Houstonia rubra
• Eastern Cottonwood

  SALICACEAE - Populus deltoides
• Narrowleaf Willow

  SALICACEAE - Salix exigua
• Godding's Willow

  SALICACEAE - Salix gooddingii
• Juniper Mistletoe

  SANTALACEAE - Phoradendron juniperinum
• Common Mullein

  SCROPHULARIACEAE - Verbascum thapsus
• Green False Nightshade

  SOLANACEAE - Chamaesaracha coronopus
• Sacred Datura

  SOLANACEAE - Datura wrightii
• Pale Wolfberry

  SOLANACEAE - Lycium pallidum
• Ground Cherry

  SOLANACEAE - Physalis hederifolia
• Silverleaf Night Shade

  SOLANACEAE - Solanum elaeangifolium
• Black Nightshade

  SOLANACEAE - Solanum nigrum
• Spiny Night Shade

  SOLANACEAE - Solanum rostratum
• Tamarisk

  TAMARICACEAE - Tamarax chinensis
• Southern Cattail

  TYPHACEAE - Typha domingensis
• Common Cattail

  TYPHACEAE - Typha latifolia
• Siberian Elm

  ULMACEAE - Ulmus Pumila
• Prairie Verbena

  VERBENACEAE - Glandularia bipinnatifida
• Caltrop

  ZYGOPHYLLACEAE - Kallstroemia parviflora
• Goathead

  ZYGOPHYLLACEAE - Tribulus terrestris
• Low to the ground

  Rattlesnake
• summer gliding

  Turkey Vulture
• Ranger led hike

  Group Hike
• First Day of the year hike

  New Years Day
• Ranger led hike

  Park Features
• Galloping through the park

  Trail Ride
• ranger led hike

  Ranger led Hike
• attentive school group

  Exploring Mine Features
• enjoying the night sky

  Star Party
• Visiting the park

  Elementary School Group
• Meeting on the trail

  Bike, Hike & Ride
• Daytime event

  transit of venus
• 

  netted mine feature
• 

  meandering trail
• 

  children’s poster
• 

  silhouette
• 

  moonlight hike
• 

  ortiz view
• 

  horny Toad
• 

  trail ride
• 

  mine feature
• Cholla Cacti

  summer clouds
• 

  bundled up
• Spring

  spring
• 

  group outting
• group hike

  kids hike
• American sparrow

  dark-eyed junco
• Most common visitor

  canyon towhee
• Nesting in cacti

  curve-billed thrasher
• Found in riparian corridor

  western tanager
• confirmed presence

  loggerhead shrike
• white crest

  scaled quail
• 55" wing span

  great horned owl
• hunts at night

  common nighthawk
• stealth hunter

  sharp-shinned Hawk
• large social flocks

  pinyon jay
• tyrant flycatcher

  cassin’s kingbird
• brown, thin billed

  say’s phoebe
• occasional winter presence

  cassin’s finch
• winter presence

  evening grosbeak
• confirmed some years

  pine siskin
• winter presence

  mountain chickadee
• sweet fast warble

  black-headed grosbeak
• common winter sighting

  american robin
• song bird

  western meadowlark
• song bird

  scott’s oriole
• nightly communal roosts

  turkey vulture
• youngster

  american kestrel
• summer/fall migratory

  rufous hummingbird
• flower pollinator

  bumblebee
• large hairy spider

  tarantula