New Mexico is home to a plant that perfectly symbolizes the state's tenacity and natural beauty – the yucca. In fact, the yucca has been the state's flower for decades. As a symbol of ...

Federal regulators proposed protections for an imperiled New Mexico plant in the New Mexico’s southwest bootheel region as the State sought ... yellow-reddish flowers leading to its nickname ...

which seeks to add to the roster of New Mexico’s state symbols. Other symbols include the yucca flower, roadrunner, cutthroat trout and New Mexico black bear. If the bill passes, the state aroma ...