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
  • Achnatherum (3)
  • Agropyron (1)
  • Agrostis (2)
  • Aristida (1)
  • Beckmannia (2)
  • Blepharoneuron (1)
  • Bouteloua (4)
  • Bromus (3)
  • Calamagrostis (1)
  • Chloris (1)
  • Deschampsia (1)
  • Distichlis (2)
  • Elymus (5)
  • Erioneuron (1)
  • Festuca (1)
  • Glyceria (1)
  • Hesperostipa (1)
  • Hordeum (1)
  • Koeleria (2)
  • Lycurus (1)
  • Muhlenbergia (8)
  • Munroa (2)
  • Nassella (1)
  • Pascopyrum (1)
  • Phleum (1)
  • Piptatheropsis (3)
  • Pleuraphis (1)
  • Poa (2)
  • Psathyrostachys (1)
  • Pseudoroegneria (1)
  • Schedonnardus (1)
  • Schizachyrium (2)
  • Sporobolus (4)
  • Tridens (1)