Native Plant Society of New Mexico Native Plant Society of New Mexico

Join us to learn about the importance of herbaria, which are systematically arranged collections of dried plants, and their value to botanists.

Renee moved to Santa Fe a few years ago from Colorado and has been volunteering with two organizations there, the Institute of Applied Ecology and the New Mexico Natural History Institute, organizing their herbaria.  She created a herbarium for the IAE using all of their voucher specimens from seed collecting.  Currently she is curating the NMNHI herbarium housed at the Randall Davey Audubon Center.