-
Desert Blooms and Marathon Moths – Plants are Cool, Too!
Giant hawk moths fly for miles each night in search of flower nectar — and are thus critically important as pollinators of desert wildflowers. Dr. Chris Martine joins Krissa Skogen (Chicago Botanic Garden) in New Mexico’s White Sands National Monument and finds plant romance happening by the light of the full moon.
Continue reading -
Robert DeWitt Ivey: 1923–2013
Of those who cherish the plants native to the Land of Enchantment, there are few unaffected by the small and simple word IVEY. Thousands have paged through his Flowering Plants of New Mexico while puzzling over a plant in the field. For all of us, his passing on June 23 was a sobering tragedy. As […]
Continue reading -
NM Native Plant Day August 17th
A Proclamation has been issued from the Governor’s office naming August 17, 2013 as Native Plant Day. The Native Plant Society of New Mexico encourages you to celebrate Native Plant Day in New Mexico by appreciating the beauty and diversity of New Mexico’s native plants and by using native plants in your garden for the […]
Continue reading -
Native Plant Day | August 17th, 2013
WHEREAS, THE GREAT STATE OF NEW MEXICO CONTAINS A GREATER NUMBER OF PLANT HABITATS THAN NEARLY ANY OTHER STATE IN THE COUNTRY, FROM CHIHUAHUAN DESERT TO ALPINE TUNDRA; AND WHEREAS, NEW MEXICO ALSO SUPPORTS A LARGER NUMBER OF NATIVE PLANT SPECIES THAN NEARLY ANY OTHER STATE IN THE COUNTRY; AND WHEREAS, SOME OF THESE SPECIES […]
Continue reading -
Venue Change for 2013 Annual Meeting
Due to space restraints at the MCM Elegante, the locations for the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Native Plant Society of New Mexico have been changed. See details below. New Meeting Location: The Thursday board meeting, registration, Friday and Saturday presentations will be at State Bar of New Mexico Center, 5121 Masthead St NE, in […]
Continue reading -
New Curator announced at NMSU Herbarium
The Department of Biology and College or Arts and Sciences (NMSU) are pleased to announce the recent hire of Dr. Patrick Alexander into a half-time postdoctoral position as curator of the Department’s Herbarium (NMC). This two year position and University support for the herbarium is, in part, the result of many years of donations to the […]
Continue reading -
Holy Ghost Ipomopsis update
Holy Ghost Ipomopsis (Ipomopsis sancti-spiritus) – a 2012 update (by Jim McGrath) On July 29, 2012 I joined state Division of Forestry botanist Daniela Roth, former state Division of Forestry botanist Bob Sivinski, UNM rare plant botanist Phil Tonne and 3 others at 2 sites of the 2011 Holy Ghost ipomopsis plantings in Holy Ghost […]
Continue reading -
NPSNM announces 2013 Workshops!
NPSNM will offer 2 workshops this summer, both to be held in northern New Mexico. SEDGE IDENTIFICATION, July 24-26, 2013. THE ART OF WILDFLOWER PHOTOGRAPHY, August 24-25, 2013. 2013 NPSNM Workshops (PDF) Registration will be done through PayPal from this page: workshops. Please direct any questions to Bob Sivinski at bsivinski@cybermesa.com.
Continue reading -
NPSNM Finance Committee meeting upcoming
Our annual Finance Committee meeting has now been scheduled and will be held in Albuquerque on Friday, January 11, 2013. This meeting is open to the membership and your involvement is welcomed. Board Members and Committee Chairs who wish to add, subtract or make changes in the 2013 budget should be present or make their […]
Continue reading -
The Leoncita False-Foxglove (Agalinis calycina) – an Endangered Species
August 31, 2012 Very likely the readers of this essay have never heard of the Leoncita false–foxglove. That’s because it is known from only two locations – one in Texas and one in New Mexico. And New Mexico botanists only became aware that this species is very rare sometime after 2007. The Leoncita false-foxglove is […]
Continue reading