Bureau of Land Management, San Luis Valley Field Office (BLM-SLV)

The Herbarium of the San Luis Valley Field Office is a collection of primarily range land plants collected on BLM lands in Southern Colorado, with a focus on the San Luis Valley. The San Luis Valley is a high elevation, intermontane desert valley at the headwaters of the Rio Grande River.

Contacts: Ben Billings, bbillings@blm.gov
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 February 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 216 specimen records
  • 13 (6%) georeferenced
  • 200 (93%) identified to species
  • 40 families
  • 121 genera
  • 142 species
  • 158 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Achillea (1)
  • Acroptilon (2)
  • Almutaster (1)
  • Artemisia (7)
  • Bahia (1)
  • Brickellia (1)
  • Chrysothamnus (5)
  • Cirsium (2)
  • Ericameria (3)
  • Erigeron (2)
  • Grindelia (1)
  • Gutierrezia (1)
  • Helianthus (1)
  • Heterotheca (2)
  • Hymenoxys (3)
  • Lactuca (1)
  • Liatris (1)
  • Machaeranthera (1)
  • Packera (1)
  • Tetradymia (2)
  • Tetraneuris (1)