List of Plants By Common Name (Sonoran Desert) - M

M

• Maguey - Century plant
• Maguey americana - Century plant
• Mal de Ojo - Desert Globemallow
• Manzanilla - See: Manzanita, (Pungens)
• Manzanita - Arctostaphylos

• Manzanita (dimin: little apple)
• Manzanita - See Bearberry
  See Chapparal
• Pointleaf Manzanita - Arctostaphylos pungens

• Manzanita, (A pringlei)
• (- 1 -) Manzanita, (Pringlei) - Arctostaphylos pringlei
  Pringlei Manzanita
  Pinkbracted Manzanita
  See: Arctostaphylos, Ericaceae
• Manzanita, (A. pungens)
• (- 2 -) Manzanita, (Pungens) - Arctostaphylos pungens
  Pointleaf Manzanita
  Bearberry
  Pinguica, Manzanilla
  Mexican Manzanita
  See: Arctostaphylos, Ericaceae
• Mariposa Lily - Desert Mariposa
• Mescal - "Parry's Agave"/Agave parryi
• Mesquite - Mesquite

• Honey Mesquite - Prosopis glandulosa
• Screwbean Mesquite - Prosopis pubescens
• Velvet Mesquite Prosopis velutina
• See: Prosopis, Mimosoideae

• Common Mesquite - Velvet Mesquite/Prosopis velutina
• Mexican Broom - Desert Broom
• (- 3 -) Mexican Elder - Sambucus mexicana
  Mexican Elder, Arizona Elder
  Desert Elderberry, Blue Elderberry
  Sauco, Tapiro
  New Mexican Blueberry Elder
  See: Sambucus, Caprifoliaceae
• (- 4 -) Mexican Gold Poppy - Eschscholzia mexicana
  Mexican Gold Poppy
  Amapola del Campo
  Desert Gold Poppy, Gold Poppy
  See: Eschscholzia, Papaveraceae
• Mexican Manzanita - See: Manzanita, (Pungens)
• Mistletoe - See: Desert Mistletoe
  Mistletoe, Desert Mistletoe
  American Mistletoe
• Mridula cactus
• Mojave pincushion - Chaenactis xantiana
  See: Chaenactis xantiana
  See: "Pincushions"
• Monkey Tail - Salt Heliotrope
• Moon Lily - Jimson Weed
• Moonflower - Desert Blazing Star
• (- 5 -) Mormon Tea - Ephedra
• Morning Bride - Fremont's Pincushion
• Mountain Aspen - Quaking Aspen
• Mountain privet - New Mexican Forestiera
• Mountain Snowberry - Roundleaf Snowberry
• Mule-fat - Seepwillow
• Mule-fat
• Mulefat - Baccharis salicifolia
• (- 6 -) Mullein - Verbascum thapsus
  Common Mullein - Mullein