CNHP Botanist Peggy Lyon has donated her personal flora collection representing over 480 species to the
Mountain Studies Institute. The
Peggy Lyon Western Colorado Flora Collection is to be housed at
Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. The Fort Lewis College herbarium is an internationally registered collection with current holdings of approximately 15,000 specimens of vascular plants and fungi, principally from southwest Colorado and the San Juan Mountains.
Peggy the Explorer
The Peggy Lyon Collection represents vascular plants from throughout Colorado's western slope, collected by Peggy from 1993 through 2008. Following in the footsteps of intrepid lady botanists of years gone by (e.g.,
Alice Eastwood and Kate Brandegee), Peggy is leaving a lasting legacy of her tireless efforts to identify and catalogue the flora of western Colorado.
2 comments:
does anyone catalog the eastern plains of CO?
Hello!
We're not aware of any collections specific to CO eastern plains that are maintained as a discrete unit and not integrated into an herbarium collection.
Most regional herbaria house collections for the entire state, including the eastern plains. Within these collections, certain contributors may have specialized in Colorado's eastern plains.
The CU herbarium (http://cumuseum.colorado.edu/Research/Botany/) has a database that allows searches by county and by collector name. And for reference books, Weber and Wittmann's Colorado Flora has separate volumes for east and west slope.
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