Native Plants of the Jaltemba Bay Area

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I love finding wild plants I haven't seen before. In southwestern Ontario I had many reference books to help me to identify them, but here in Nayarit there is little to help me other than long, usually futile searches on the Internet.

After years of intermittent research and much photography, these pages are my incipient flora of the area which will help you to identify and learn something about some of the plants near Jaltemba Bay.

I'm not a plant taxonomist, so my identifications are not guaranteed to be correct. When I place a plant in a family I'm pretty confident that it's correct. When I assign it to a genus I'm usually certain, but occasionally not (and I'll say so). On the rare occasion when I name a species it's because I know I'm right (unless I'm wrong).

This page will be added to on an ongoing basis and it's going to take some time to identify and post the scores of plants I've named at least to the family level. They are arranged according to their scientific names, alphabetically first by family, then by genus, then by species. As time goes on more information will be added including the common names, both local and in English. If you want to learn more about any of these plants, copy and paste the scientific name (e.g. "barleria micans" into Google or another search engine.

Click on any photo and an enlargement will pop up; click on the enlargement to close it, or use the "Next" button to step through all of the enlarged photos for that species.