Gila National Forest Herbarium (USFS-GILA)
The collection as of August, 2023 contains 2147 specimens. The majority of specimens have been collected in Gila National forest and other areas of SW New Mexico. Many specimens were donated by Jack L. Carter, the author of Trees and Shrubs of New Mexico. Dr. Carter was a long-time resident of Silver City, NM, which is also the home of the Gila National Forest Herbarium. Dr. Carter gathered numerous volunteers to document the flora of SW NM during the 1990s. The specimens collected by Dr. Carter and volunteers make up the bulk of the Gila NF Herbarium. Vascular plants are the focus of the herbarium with lichens absent and only two moss specimens present. The Poaceae is especially well represented in the collection.
Primary Contact: Jim McGrath, james.mcgrath2@usda.gov
Secondary Contact: Jenny (Nessa) Rasmussen, Jenny.Rasmussen2@usda.gov
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: a0ef50eb-90f2-45ad-a3a5-960ac40e73ec
DwC-Archive Access Point: https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/content/dwca/USFS-GILA_DwC-A.zip
Digital Metadata: EML File
Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
GBIF Dataset page: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/4e07968c-842b-4c22-8f57-ac14a9e7934b
Address:
Gila National Forest
3005 E Camino del Bosque
Silver City, NM 88061
United States
(575) 388-8201
Collection Statistics
- 2,147 specimen records
- 1,954 (91%) georeferenced
- 2,097 (98%) identified to species
- 127 families
- 525 genera
- 1,080 species
- 1,159 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
