Eryngium alpinum (alpine eryngo) Heart-shaped, deciduous, toothed basal leaves support stout, upright stems that carry 2in blue flower heads in mid and late summer. The flowers sit on a broad and ...

The eryngo formerly also lived in one place in New Mexico but is now gone from the state. The Service also designated 13 acres of critical habitat at the three confirmed surviving populations of the ...

More than 95% of the cienega habitats that the eryngo and many other species need to survive have already been lost. Both sites where the flower survives are threatened by groundwater overuse to ...