Education

The NPSNM currently has eight chapters (including one from Texas) that work to promote the objectives of the organization, and educate the local population so they might better understand their regional flora through field trips, lectures, plant sales and seed exchanges. The talents, interests and skills of chapter members greatly influence the activities and programs offered.

Many chapters schedule activities during the year and visitors are always welcome. Check out the Local Chapters link on the left hand menu bar.

For information on floristic or taxonomic research being done in the state, visit Kelly Allred's website (NMSU) that includes The New Mexico Botanist Newsletter

Plant Collecting and Gathering Useful Data for Donating to our State's Herbaria

• Collecting Plants, Here is a pdf handout to help get you started. Compiled by Bob Sivinski
• Using GPS coordinates MapTools (an informative website)
• The UNM Herbarium Virtual Tour (PPT presentation)

Plant Identification

• Synoptic table of vascular plants (pdf)
• Chart of fruit types (pdf, goes with the synoptic table of vascular plants)
• Tribes of the Asteraceae pdf format
• New Mexico Genera for the Tribes of the Aster Family pdf format
• Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness (Photographs)
• A chart of inflorescence types
• Monocots versus Dicots: The Two Classes of Flowering Plants From Berkeley's website

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Recent Workshops

September 2008 - Native Plant Society of New Mexico - Grasses of New Mexico Workshop NPSNM's first statewide workshop in many years drew a crowd of 21 participants from around the state. The two-day Grasses of New Mexico workshop, in Los Alamos in August, attracted lots of attention and popular demand for a repeat. The course was taught by Kelly Allred of NM State University, the recognized expert on NM grasses, and society president Chick Keller. Basics of keying grasses occupied the first day, while the second included field trips to an arid mesa and the moist East Fork of the Jemez River. More lab time gave students a chance to identify field samples.

Grass Workshop Participants