Botany Field Class Photo Essay

Many graduate students, land management professionals, and amateur botanists have a hard time finding opportunities to hone their field plant identification skills. Oftentimes plant identification can be one of the most difficult, but necessary, professional skills to maintain. Kirsten Romig, Connie Maxwell, and Amy Slaughter of the Jornada host a bimonthly Jornada Experimental Range field botany workshop.

These workshops are designed to improve individual's knowledge of plants in our area.
Workshops are free and open to the public.
Please contact Kirsten for further information about upcoming workshops and designing workshops to address specific botanical skills.

Photographs taken by Connie Maxwell and Kirsten Romig during the workshops on June 2 and September 4, 2012.

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Botany Field Class Photo Essay

January 2014 botany field trip

Kirsten Romig, second from the right, talks about sandy ecological sites characterized by both the perennial grass black grama (Bouteloua eriopoda) and the long lived leguminous shrub honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa).

Crucifixion thorn (Koeberlinia spinosa), a spiny shrub native to the Chihuahuan Desert that lacks leaves but has photosynthetic branches.

Breaking for lunch during the June 2, 2012 field workshop.

A native plant of the "Forget-me-not" family - Tiquilia canescens (wooly crinklemat).

Kirsten Romig (left) and Amy Slaughter (right) scout out interesting plants for the next workshop. Here they are looking at Nerisyrenia linearifolia (White Sands fanmustard), a “gypsophile” growing on gypsum flats and sinkholes.

Dr. Kelly Allred (left) and Dr. Dave Anderson (right), two legendary botanists from NMSU and White Sands Missile Range, catch up while waiting for the workshop to begin.

The second JER Field Botany Workshop on September 4, 2012. After exploring the historic Ropes Springs site in the San Andrés Mountains, the group is standing in the shade of box elders (Acer negundo var. interius).

The slopes above Ropes Springs within the San Andres Mountains on the eastern side of the Jornada Experimental Range.

Kirsten Romig, kneeling in the center of the photo, illustrating identifying features of Chihuahuan Desert flora.

Spreading sida (Sida abutifolia), a native perennial of the Mallow family.

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