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 PLANTS+ OF THE BLACK RANGE
 OF NEW MEXICO

An Annotated Checklist
 Edition One of Volume Two
This checklist of the plants (including a few lichen and other non-plant species) of the Black Range of southwestern New Mexico draws from a variety of sources. It is a work in progress and undoubtedly contains errors. If you encounter errors of substantive omission or commission or administrative errors (broken or incorrect links, spelling, etc.) please let me know at rabarnes@blackrange.org so that the errors can be corrected. Your help in this manner will be of benefit to the general community.
Methodology
This checklist was put together in the following manner:
✦ A search of the SEINet data base (Arizona & New Mexico Chapters) was conducted to determine the possible species in the Black Range;
✦ A preliminary search of the Consortium of North American Lichen Herbaria data base was conducted to determine possible species in the Black Range (this work is incomplete);
✦ These listings were matched against the files of the Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness and the photo galleries of the Black Range website;
✦ If there was a match, a link to the species page on the Vascular Plants of Gila Wilderness site and/or the appropriate page on www.blackrange.org was entered in the notes column;
✦ A review of the Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness data base was conducted to determine if an image from the Black Range is included on the species page at that site. If so, the Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness was used to verify that the species can be found in the Black Range. In the notes column this is indicated by an entry for the location where the species was found followed by a ‘(V)”;
✦ If the species is included in the photo galleries of the Black Range website, the location where the species was found was entered in the notes column followed by “(B)”’;
✦ For all species not verified for the Black Range in the review of Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness or the
Black Range website, a search for specimen sheets was conducted;
✦ If a specimen sheet from the Black Range was located for the species, an entry noting this was made in the notes column. The name of the collector and the general location where the specimen was collected was entered in the notes column as a link to the specimen sheet. Such entries are shown in dark blue.
✦ Species which are not verified for the Black Range are indicated by a light blue “cell filling” in the first cell in the species row.

 Disclaimers and 
 Points of Clarification
In some cases, you may note that an entry from the Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness data base has been entered on the checklist but the initial cell of the species listing is filled in light blue indicating that the species was not verified for the Black Range following the process described above.
It is quite possible that most (perhaps close to all?) species listed in the Vascular Plants of the Gila Wilderness data base are found in the Black Range. But absent a clear documentation of that fact, we have highlighted them for more scrutiny - the light blue cell. On the flip side of the coin, there are some listings in this checklist which are not listed on the Vascular Plants of Gila Wilderness site.
We have attempted to adhere to a conservative definition of “the Black Range”. Basically, it is the area confined by the major road systems which border the range; NM-59 in the north (taking in some of the area north of this highway); North Star Road on the NW side of the range; NM-35 from the junction of North Star to NM-152; NM-61 from NM-152 to US-180; US-180 to NM-26; NM-26 to NM-27; NM-27 to Hillsboro; and then roughly northward to Winston/NM-59. These general boundaries are shades of gray - City of Rocks State Park is included, the area to the east of US-180 is not included until the foothills are encountered; and the eastern foothills are included for roughly 5 miles west of Hillsboro and north.
        















































































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