Donations to Regional Herbaria
Herbarium collections are invaluable 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 supported herbaria through annual gifts, which currently include the ones listed below. Click on the ones in blue to go to their websites.
- Carrizo Mountain Herbarium, Beclabito
- New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
- San Juan College, Farmington
- Santa Fe Botanical Garden
- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
- University of Texas at El Paso
- 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.
Herbaria at New Mexico State University, San Juan College, Santa Fe Botanical Garden, the University of New Mexico, and Western New Mexico University have searchable databases of their specimens at SEINet. Click on the link: https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/collections/index.php
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The University of Texas at El Paso also has a searchable database on SEINet: https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/collections/misc/collprofiles.php?collid=354
Common Sunflower, Helianthus annus,
image courtesy of SEINet, © 2014 UNM
Herbarium. All rights reserved.