Donations to Regional Herbaria

Herbarium collections are an invaluable resource for botanical and ecological education, plant identification, and study. Detailed photographs of specimens are being digitized and made available to a worldwide network of scientists. Physical herbarium specimens are a unique archive of biodiversity over decades and centuries, chronicling long-term changes and preserving chemical makeup and DNA for future analysis.

For years, the Native Plant Society of New Mexico has provided support through annual gifts to herbaria at the:

• University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• University of Texas at El Paso
• San Juan College, Farmington
• New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
• Western New Mexico University, Silver City

Other scholastic, tribal, or museum herbaria in New Mexico or West Texas are invited to apply for donations by writing to NPSNM, P.O. Box 35388, Albuquerque, NM 87176.