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| Swale paintbrush with Centaurium sp. |
The latest news in the New Mexico rare plants world is that Castilleja ornata has been listed as an endangered species. Prior to this week, NM had just 13 federally-listed threatened or endangered plant species.
The location of the only population in NM is closely guarded, but from photographs on iNaturalist, Flickr, and Instagram, one can get a pretty good idea of the approx. location in the NM boot heel. Best I can tell, the location is near Whitmire Canyon where County Road C004 meets the Battalion Road. Of course, that doesn't narrow things down very much.
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| Habitat with Animas Mtns in the distance |
It has been seen in Chihuahua in the Cumbres de Majalca National Park. Otherwise, we're having to deal with just old herbarium specimens. Speaking of which, the SEINet portal is down this evening. I'm getting http 500 errors with my browser.
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