List of invasive plant species in New Mexico

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Numerous plants have been introduced to New Mexico in the United States, and many of them have become invasive species. The following are some of these species:

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| Artemisia biennis

| biennial wormwood

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| Arundo donax

| giant cane

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| Atriplex suberecta

| sprawling saltbush

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| Bromus diandrus

| great brome

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| Bromus sterilis

| barren brome

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| Carduus acanthoides

| spiny plumeless thistle

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| Carduus nutans{{cite journal |last1=Schiebout |first1=Michael H. |last2=Hazlett |first2=Donald L. |last3=Snow |first3=Neil |title=A Floristic Survey of Vascular Plants Over Parts of Northeastern New Mexico |journal=Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas |date=2008 |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=1407–1447 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41971792 |issn=1934-5259}}

| musk thistle

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| Centaurea solstitialis

| yellow star-thistle

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| Cuscuta californica

| chaparral dodder

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| Cirsium vulgare

| spear thistle

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| Hedypnois cretica

| cretanweed

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| Eragrostis cilianensis

| stinkgrass

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| Kali tragus

| prickly Russian thistle

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| Puccinellia distans

| weeping alkaligrass

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| Rubus armeniacus

| Himalayan blackberry

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| Salix × fragilis

| crack willow

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| Solanum elaeagnifolium

| silverleaf nightshade

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| Tamarix chinensis

| five-stamen tamarisk

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| Tamarix gallica

| French tamarisk

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| Tamarix parviflora

| smallflower tamarisk

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| Tamarix ramosissima

| saltcedar

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