Flora of Mexican Pacific Islands

Brahea edulis, the Guadalupe palm or palma de Guadalupe, is a palm endemic to Guadalupe Island, Mexico, although a few stands have been planted elsewhere. It is a fan palm which grows 4.50 to 13 metres (15 to 43 ft) tall. It grows on the island between 400 and 1,000 metres (1,300 and 3,300 ft) above mean sea level (ASL), with this altitudinal zonation producing one of the few fog oases present in North America.

Hesperelaea is a monotypic genus of trees in the olive family which contains the single species Hesperelaea palmeri, now probably extinct. The species was found only on Guadalupe Island, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, part of the Mexican state of Baja California, about 400 km (250 mi) southwest of Ensenada. It was collected once in 1875 by Edward Palmer, who found three living individuals. He remains the only recorded person to have seen the species alive. The small population of the species, the devastating effects of feral goats, and the overexploitation of the island's woody plants

Guettarda insularis is a species of flowering plant. It is a large shrubby tree native to Socorro Island, the largest of the Revillagigedo Islands which lie west of Mexico's Pacific coast. Guettarda insularis is prominent in Socorro's higher-elevation forests, which occur between 350 and 850 meters (1,150 and 2,790 ft) elevation. Other forest canopy trees include Ilex socorroensis, Sideroxylon socorrense, and Psidium oligospermum. The fruit of the tree is eaten by the Socorro parakeet (Psittacara brevipes).

Dudleya guadalupensis is a very rare species of succulent perennial plant in the family Crassulaceae commonly known as the Guadalupe liveforever. It is a rosette-forming leaf succulent, with foliage that is variously colored light green, green, and a waxy white. It is characterized by dense leaves that fold over the center in dormancy, a curving, sinuous flower stalk, and white, cup-shaped flowers. It is endemic to the rocks and islets off of Guadalupe Island, an isolated volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean located 241 kilometers off of the coast of Baja California.

Cyperus duripes is a species of sedge that is native to the Revillagigedo Islands off Mexico in the Pacific Ocean.

Castilleja guadalupensis is an extinct species of plant in the broomrape family Orobanchaceae commonly known as the Guadalupe paintbrush. The plant was only found on the central and northern portions of Guadalupe Island, an eastern Pacific island of Mexico. It was one of two endemic species of Castilleja to the island, the other, Castilleja fruticosa, mainly surviving on offshore islets. C. guadalupensis was first found by Edward Palmer on the middle of Guadalupe in 1875, although the plants were initially recognized as Castilleja foliolosa. The type specimen was later collected by

Baeriopsis is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, containing the single species Baeriopsis guadalupensis. It is endemic to the Guadalupe Island archipelago along the coast of Baja California in Mexico. It grows in Guadalupe mesa scrub habitat.

Aristolochia socorroensis is an island endemic species from the Mexican Socorro Island, one of the Pacific Revillagigedo Islands. It is a species of pipevine in the birthwort family.

Pogogyne tenuiflora is an extinct species of annual plant in the mint family. Endemic to Guadalupe Island in the eastern Pacific, the Guadalupe mesa mint was only known from a single specimen collected by Edward Palmer in 1875. The species was described from Palmer's specimens by Asa Gray in 1876. Pogogyne tenuiflora is a small, aromatic annual herb, with inflorescences consisting of flowers in bracteate verticils forming dense terminal spikes. The corollas are blue-purple and tubular, with an erect, entire upper lip and a spreading 3-lobed lower lip. The corollas measure 10–14 mm (0.39–0.55

Ilex socorroensis is a species of flowering plant in the holly genus (Ilex). It is a tree native to Socorro Island in the Revillagigedo Islands west of Mexico's Pacific coast. It is a small tree, growing up to 8 meters tall. It grows from 50 to 950 meters elevation on Socorro. At high elevations it is the dominant canopy tree in Ilex socorroensis forest. Other forest canopy trees include Guettarda insularis, Sideroxylon socorrense, and Psidium oligospermum. At middle elevations it grows in dry forest and shrubland. The population is small, estimated at 2,500 mature individuals. It is

Eschscholzia palmeri is a species of poppy native to Guadalupe Island in Mexico. It is a low growing woody perennial with a narrow taproot and yellow flowers.

Erigeron socorrensis is a Mexican species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name Socorro Island fleabane. It has been found only on Socorro Island in Mexico, part of the State of Colima. This is a small, volcanic island about 390 kilometres (240 miles) south-southwest of the southern end of the Peninsula of Baja California, the largest of the Revillagigedo Islands. Erigeron socorrensis is a shrub up to 120 cm (3.9 ft) tall, with a large woody caudex. It has narrowly oblanceolate leaves up to 8 cm (3 in) long. One plant can produce several groups of small flower

Croton masonii is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae. It is a shrub endemic to the Revillagigedo Islands, an archipelago off Mexico's Pacific coast.

Cistanthe guadalupensis is a species of caudiciform succulent flowering plant in the family Montiaceae. The plant is native to Guadalupe Island. This species is extremely rare in cultivation, due to its tendency to rot in summer dormancy and its remote island location.

Nesothamnus incanus is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to Guadalupe Island, a Mexican Pacific island off the west coast of Baja California. The species was first named Perityle incana by Asa Gray in 1876. In 1914 Per Axel Rydberg placed it in the monotypic genus Nesothamnus as Nesothamnus incanus.

Eschscholzia elegans is a relative of the California poppy that occurs on Guadalupe and Cedros islands, off the coast of the Baja California peninsula. Although many of the specimens given its name are actually Eschscholzia ramosa, its type specimen and a few other specimens have very different seeds, and may be more closely related to Eschscholzia palmeri.

Nesothamnus incanus is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is endemic to Guadalupe Island, a Mexican Pacific island off the west coast of Baja California. The species was first named Perityle incana by Asa Gray in 1876. In 1914 Per Axel Rydberg placed it in the monotypic genus Nesothamnus as Nesothamnus incanus.

Oenothera resicum is a species in the family Onagraceae, and the first record of this family in the Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexican Pacific. Endemic to Isla Clarión.

Dudleya virens subsp. extima is a subspecies of succulent plant in the family Crassulaceae commonly known as the Guadalupe green liveforever. It is a rosette-forming leaf succulent, with both green and white waxy foliage. It has white flowers with spreading petals that bloom from May to June. It is a somewhat small plant, continuing a southward trend of decreasing size relative to other Dudleya virens subspecies. This plant is endemic to Guadalupe Island in the eastern Pacific Ocean, which is 241 kilometers off of the Baja California coast. It is very rare, with this plant only surviving on

Lupinus guadalupensis is a rare species of lupine known by the common name Guadalupe Island lupine. It is known only from San Clemente Island, one of the Channel Islands of California, and Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California. It is a member of the coastal scrub growing alongside other island endemics and more common plants. This is an annual herb growing 20 to 60 centimeters high. Each palmate leaf is made up of 7 to 9 narrow leaflets up to 5 centimeters long and just a few millimeters wide, sometimes linear in shape. The inflorescence bears whorls of flowers each about a

Cochemiea blossfeldiana is a species of Cochemiea found in Mexico.

Dudleya virens, the green liveforever or bright green dudleya, is an uncommon species of perennial, succulent plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to several coastal southern California and Baja California locations.

Ceanothus arboreus is a species of perennial shrub to small tree in the family Rhamnaceae, commonly known as the feltleaf ceanothus, island ceanothus, and island mountain lilac. It is the largest member of the California lilacs (the Ceanothus genus), and is characterized with glossy, dark green foliage that is adorned by pale blue to white flowers in bloom. It is endemic to the Channel Islands of California and Guadalupe Island in Mexico, only being re-discovered on Guadalupe Island after the elimination of feral goats.

Scrophularia villosa is a species of flowering plant in the figwort family known by the common name Santa Catalina figwort. It is endemic to the Channel Islands of California, where it is known only from Catalina and San Clemente Islands. It grows in coastal sage scrub and chaparral habitat. It is a shrub growing between one and two meters tall.

Phacelia floribunda is a species of phacelia known by the common names many-flowered phacelia, southern island phacelia and San Clemente Island phacelia. It is known only from San Clemente Island, one of the Channel Islands of California, and Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California. It grows in coastal sage scrub habitat in the canyons of these two islands.

Lepechinia hastata is a rare species of perennial shrub in the mint family commonly known as the Cape pitcher sage or Baja pitcher sage. Lepechinia hastata is an aromatic shrub characterized by large, arrowhead-shaped leaves and attractive purple to magenta flowers. In the wild, it is known from the forested mountains of the Sierra de la Laguna in Baja California Sur and the volcanic Socorro Island in the Pacific Ocean, both part of Mexico. The plants of Socorro Island are their own subspecies, and differ in their white flowers and wooly, grayer foliage. It is also found on the Hawaiian

Jacquemontia abutiloides is a species of vining plant in the bindweed family (Convolvulaceae) commonly known as the felt-leaf clustervine or felt-leaf morning-glory. A perennial characterized by wooly leaves and blue to whitish flowers, this species grows as a woody plant to shrub with vining upper stems. Flowering is from September to June. It is near-endemic to the Baja California peninsula, Mexico, concentrated mostly around the central peninsula south of the Vizcaino Desert, and found on some of the coastal islands.

Gilia nevinii is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the phlox family known by the common name Nevin's gilia. It is known only from the Channel Islands of California and Guadalupe Island off Baja California, where it grows in seaside canyons and flats. This is an erect herb with a hairy stem up to about 40 centimeters tall lined with deeply lobed leaves. The glandular inflorescence produces yellow-throated lavender flowers 8 to 14 millimeters wide, each with protruding stamens tipped with blue anthers.

Erysimum insulare is a species of Erysimum known by the common name island wallflower. It is endemic to coast of southern California, including the Channel Islands. Erysimum insulare grows on coastal bluffs and sand dunes.

Jepsonia malvifolia is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the saxifrage family known by the common name island jepsonia or island button-saxifrage. It is found only on the Channel Islands of California and Guadalupe Island off Baja California. It grows in exposed rock and clay soils on the chaparral and scrub slopes of the islands. This is a small perennial herb growing up to 10 inches (25 centimetres) tall. It produces two or three leaves from a flat caudex. The green leaves are round or kidney-shaped and edged with ruffled lobes. The plant flowers in fall, producing an inflorescence