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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
Homepage: http://www.blm.gov/co/st/en/fo/slvfo.html
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 February 2016
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://nansh.org/portal/content/dwca/BLM-SLV_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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
Geographic Distribution
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