Bureau of Land Management, Las Cruces District Office (BLM-LCDO)

The Las Cruces District Office manages land in Doña Ana, Grant, Luna, Otero, and Sierra counties in southwestern New Mexico. We maintain a reference collection, primarily of plants found on BLM land within the district, to aid plant identification in the office and document some of our activities.

State Botanist: Maria Mullins, mmullins@blm.gov, 505-954-2045
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: b15cc20f-82fe-4c2f-9eda-43514748112c
Digital Metadata: EML File
Collection Statistics
  • 2,538 specimen records
  • 433 (17%) georeferenced
  • 10 (0.39%) with images (10 total images)
  • 2,516 (99%) identified to species
  • 97 families
  • 530 genera
  • 1,043 species
  • 1,221 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)
Extra Statistics
Taxon Distribution
Taxon Distribution
  • Brassica (2)
  • Capsella (1)
  • Cardaria (3)
  • Chorispora (2)
  • Corydalis (1)
  • Descurainia (5)
  • Dimorphocarpa (3)
  • Diplotaxis (4)
  • Draba (5)
  • Dryopetalon (1)
  • Erysimum (1)
  • Lepidium (9)
  • Lesquerella (1)
  • Nasturtium (2)
  • Nerisyrenia (5)
  • Noccaea (1)
  • Pennellia (1)
  • Physaria (9)
  • Rorippa (1)
  • Schoenocrambe (3)
  • Selenia (1)
  • Sibara (2)
  • Streptanthus (7)
  • Thelypodiopsis (2)
  • Thelypodium (3)