Herbaceous Plants of the Northern Yucatan Peninsula

Read excerpts from Jim Conrad's Naturalist Newsletter concerning these Yucatec herbaceous plants:
*Anthurium schlechtendalii* *Aphelandras* Balsam-pear (Momordica charantia) Boat Lily (Tradescantia spathacea) BROMELIADS *Aechmea bracteata* Piñuela (Bromelia pinguin) CACTI Mammillaria, Gaumer's (Mammillaria gaumeri) Old-Man (Cephalocereus gaumeri) Pricklypear (Opuntia inaperta) Contrayerba (Dorstenia contrajerva) Fern, Microgramma (Microgramma nitida) Funastrum lindenianum (small vine)	Llantém (Plantago major) Metastelma schlechtendalii (small vine) MORNING-GLORIES Blue (Ipomoea nil) "Heterodox" (I. heterodoxa) Jacquemontia (Jacquemontia nodiflora) Red (Ipomoea coccinea) Petunia, Mexican Wild (Ruellia nudiflora) Porophyllum punctatum Scarlet-Bush (Hamelia patens) *Solanum tridynamum* Spiny Cucumbers (Cucumis anguria) Spinypod, Yucatan (Dictyanthus yucatanensis) Stick-Tight (Bidens alba) Waltherias (Waltheria americana) Water-Hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) Wild Yam (Dioscorea sp.)
MORE INFO: The online Flora of the Yucatán illustrates and describes more and more species as time pases.