Darwin Genovesa Marchena Pinta Wolf
Trees with Alternate Leaves and White Flowers          
Incense Tree - Bursera graveolens X X X X  
Galapagos croton - Croton scouleri X X X X X
Trees with Alternate Leaves and Yellow or Orange Flowers          
Yellow cordia - Cordia lutea   X X X X
Mesquite - Prosopis juliflora       X  
Cat's claw - Zanthoxylum fagara       X  
Trema - Trema micrantha       X  
Trees with Alternate Leaves and Pink, Red, or Purple Flowers          
Flame Tree - Erythrina velutina X X     X
Trees with Opposite Leaves and White Flowers          
White mangrove - Laguncularia racemosa       X  
Red mangrove - Rhizophora mangle   X      
Trees with Opposite Leaves and Green Flowers          
Galapagos pisonia - Pisonia floribunda       X  
Shrubs with Alternate Leaves and White Flowers          
Thin-leafed Darwin's shrub - Darwiniothamnus tenuifolius       X  
Baur's scalesia - Scalesia baurii       X X
Small-headed scalesia - Scalesia microcephala         X
White-haired tournefortia - Tournefortia pubescens         X
Rufours-haired tournefortia - Tournefortia rufo-sericea       X  
Salt bush - Cryptocarpus pyriformis   X X X  
Velvet nightshade - Solanum erianthum       X  
Shrubs with Alternate Leaves and Yellow or Orange Flowers          
Darwin's cotton - Gossypium darwinii     X X  
Waltheria - Waltheria ovata   X X X  
Shrubs with Alternate Leaves and Pink, Red, or Purple Flowers
       
Castela - Castela galapageia     X X  
Shrubs with Alternate Leaves and Green Flowers          
Atriplex - Atriplex peruviana         X
Shrubs with Alternate Leaves and Brown Flowers
       
Smooth-stemmed tournefortia - Tournefortia psilostachya       X  
Shrubs with Opposite Leaves and White Flowers
       
Spiny-headed chaff flower - Alternanthera echinocephala       X  
Thread-leafed chaff flower - Alternanthera filifolia       X  
Chaff flower - Alternanthera halimifolia       X  
Chamaesyce - Chamaesyce amplixicaulis   X X   X
Milkberry - Chiococca alba     X X  
White wild coffee - Psychotria rufipes       X  
Galapagos lantana - Lantana peduncularis Andersson   X X X  
Narrow-leafed lippia       X  
Shrubs with Opposite Leaves and Yellow or Orange Flowers          
Macraea - Macraea laricifolia       X  
Shrubs with Opposite Leaves and Green Flowers          
Galapagos mistletoe - Phoradendron henslowii       X  
Herbs with Alternate Leaves and White Flowers   X   X X
Seaside heliotrope - Heliotropium curassavicum   X X X  
Gray matplant - Tiquilia galapagoa   X X X  
White evolvulus - Evolvulus simplex   X      
Slender mimosa - Desmanthus virgatus       X  
Ionopsis - Ionopsis utricularioidis       X  
White leadwort - Plumbago scandens       X  
Galapagos shore petunia - Exedeconus miersii   X X X  
Glossy nightshade - Solanum americanum       X X
Herbs with Alternate Leaves and Yellow or Orange Flowers          
Fuzzy Rattlebox - Crotalaria incana     X X  
Wild cowpea - Vigna luteola       X  
Stickleaf - Mentzelia aspera   X   X  
Bastardia - Bastardia viscosa       X  
Galapagos purslane - Portulaca howellii  X X X X X
Common purslane - Portulaca oleracea       X X
Galapagos tomato - Lycopersicon cheesmanii X     X  
Hairy ground cherry - Physalis pubescens   X   X  
Herbs with Alternate Leaves and Pink, Red, or Purple Flowers          
Poreleaf - Porophyllum ruderale       X  
Purple evolvus - Evolvulus convolvuloides       X  
Tick trefoil - Desmodium incanum   X      
Hoary pea - Tephrosia decumbens     X X  
Herbs with Alternate Leaves and Blue Flowers          
Dayflower - Commelina diffusa       X  
Herbs with Alternate Leaves and Green Flowers          
Phyllanthus - Phyllanthus caroliniensis       X  
Buttonhole orchid - Epidendrum spicatum       X  
Herbs with Alternate Leaves and Brown Flowers          
Andersson's sedge - Cyperus anderssonii X X X X X
Sedge - Cyperus ligularis     X X  
Galapagos three-awn grass - Arisida subspicata   X X    
Eragrostis - Eragrostis ciliaris   X X X  
Herbs with Opposite Leaves and White Flowers          
Galapagos carpetweed - Sesuvium edmonstonei X X     X
Trianthema - Trianthema portulacastrum   X      
Blainvillea - Blainvillea dichotoma       X  
Herbs with Opposite Leaves and Yellow or Orange Flowers          
Pectis - Pectis tenuifolia   X      
Puncture weed - Tribulus cistoides X     X  
Herbs with Opposite Leaves and Pink, Red, or Purple Flowers          
Blechum - Blechum pyramidatum       X  
Galapagos justicia - Justicia galapagana       X  
Common carpetweed - Sesuvium portulacastrum     X    
Ageratum - Ageratum conyzoides       X  
Boerhaavia - Boerhaavia caribaea   X   X  
Herbs with Opposite Leaves and Green Flowers          
Galapagos pilea - Pilea baurii       X  
Herbs with Whorled Leaves and White Flowers          
Mollugo - Mollugo flavescens   X X X  
Herbs with Whorled Leaves and Green Flowers          
Galapagos peperomia       X  
Herbs with Basal Leaves and Yellow or Orange Flowers          
Yellow star-grass - Hypoxix decumbens       X  
Vines with Alternate Leaves and White Flowers          
Moon flower - Ipomoea alba X        
Lava morning-glory - Ipomoea habeliana   X X X  
Morning-glory - Ipomoea linearifolia   X   X X
Hairy merremia - Merremia aegyptica   X   X  
Heartseed - Cardiospermum halicacabum         X
Vines with Alternate Leaves and Yellow or Orange Flowers          
Rhynchosia - Rhynchosia minima   X X X  
Passion flower - Passiflora suberosa       X  
Vines with Alternate Leaves and Pink, Red, or Purple Flowers          
Beach morning-glory - Ipomoea pes-caprae   X X    
Morning-glory - Ipomoea triloba       X X
Vines with Alternate Leaves and Green Flowers          
Hairy cissampelos - Cissampelos pareira       X  
Vines with Opposite Leaves and Pink, Red, or Purple Flowers          
Galapagos sarcostemma - Sarcostemma angustissimum       X  
Cacti with White Flowers          
Lava cactus - Brachycereus nesioticus   X   X  
Cacti with Yellor or Orange Flowers          
Prickly Pear cactus - Opuntia galapageia       X  
Prickly Pear cactus - Opuntia helleri X X X   X

Sources:
    McMullen, Conley K. (1999).  Flowering Plants of the Galapagos Itaca, New York: Cornell University Press.

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