Publications & Past Projects
A Field Guide to the Grasses of New Mexico
3rd Edition, November 2005
by Kelly W. Allred
This guide describes over 480 different kinds of grasses growing in New Mexico, with all the species illustrated.
INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL explains the structure and terminology of the grass plant and summarizes the scientific classification of New Mexico grasses.
KEYS allow the correct identification of grass plants growing in the state (including cultivated, lawn, and ornamental species), giving the correct scientific and common names, notes on habitat and uses, and county-level distribution maps.
APPENDICES provide information on important grass weeds, poisonous or harmful species, grasses for pasture and range improvement, life history characteristics of important range and wildlife grasses, and vegetative identification.
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A Working Index of New Mexico Vascular Plant Names
A Guide to the Common Locoweeds and Milkvetches
by W.E. Fox, K.W. Allred, & E.H. Roalson.
This guide describes New Mexico's 19 most common locoweeds and milkvetches (genera Astragalus and Oxytropis), including 35 different varieties. Range managers and ranchers will find helpful information about toxins in locoweeds and milkvetches and their effects on livestock, plus techniques for controlling and managing these poisonous plants. A helpful feature of this guide is computer software for identifying the common species in New Mexico. The guide also provides a dichotomous key to the species. A thorough identification section provides common and scientific names, detailed descriptions, 87 color photographs, habitat and distribution information, and maps.
The guide is currently out of print, but efforts are underway to make it available on-line. I will update this page when it becomes available.
Theses from Work Done at the Herbarium
Listed chronologically
Soreng, Robert J. 1980. A biosystematical comparison of Poa occidentalis Vasey and Poa tracyi Vasey.
Loomis, Lynn E. 1983. Some taxonomic and ecological relationships of New Mexico perennial snakeweeds.
Trent, Jonathon S. 1985. A study of morphological variability in divaricate Aristida of the southwestern United States.
Columbus, J. Travis. 1988. Flora of Cooke's Range, southwestern New Mexico.
Fox, William E. III. 1993. A field guide to selected New Mexico locoweeds and milkvetches.
McSweeney, A.M. 1995. Views on land and nature: Conversations with northern New Mexican ranchers.
Roalson, Eric H. 1995. A floristic inventory of the upper main Diamond Creek drainage area.
Adams, T.P. 1998. An inventory of herbaceous vascular aquatic plants of perennial waters of southwestern New Mexico.
Forbes, A.C. 1999. A floristic inventory of the new Mexico State University Range and Livestock Research Center. (A photo gallery of the flora can be found here.)
Johnson Fulton, Susannah B. 2003. A floristic inventory of the vascular plants of the saddle mountain area, Catron County, New Mexico.
Fink, R.W. II. 2007. A floristic inventory of Salinas Peak, White Sands Missile Range.
A Field Guide to the Flora of the Jornada Plain
The Jornada Plain in central Doña Ana County lies at the southern end of the famous Jornada del Muerto (Journey of the Dead). It is bounded on the west by the Rio Grande and on the east by the San Andres Mountains. The area under study is home to the Chihuahuan Desert Rangeland Research Center (formerly the College Ranch) of New Mexico State University and much of the Jornada Experimental Range, operated by the USDA.
The flora of the Jornada Plain includes 72 families, 290 genera, and 502 species of seed plants (conifers and flowering plants), and eight families, 17 genera, and 22 species of spore plants (ferns, horsetails, spikemosses, and true mosses), totaling 80 families, 307 genera, and 524 species. The predominant plant families are the Asteraceae with 64 genera and 98 species, the Poaceae with 37 genera and 84 species, and the Fabaceae with 19 genera and 37 species.
The first "A Field Guide to the Flora of the Jornada Plain" was published in 1988 as Bulletin 739 of the Agricultural Experiment Station, New Mexico State University. All succeeding editions have been issued as Contributions from the Range Science Herbarium: Edition 2 in 1997; edition 3 in 2000; edition 4 in 2003; and now edition 5 in 2005
A copy may be obtained online by clicking on the photo or on the link below, or by sending a request to:
Kelly Allred
MSC Box 3-I
Department of Animal & Range Sciences
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Publications from the Herbarium
Reprints or copies of many of the articles listed here are available from Kelly Allred, upon request. In addition, all articles appearing in The New Mexico Botanist are available on-line.
The publications are listed chronologically.
Allison, C.D. & K.W. Allred. 1980. Collecting, pressing, mounting and storage of range plants. New Mexico Coop. Ext. Guide B-814.
Allred, K.W. 1981. Cousins to the south: Amphitropical disjunctions in southwestern grasses. Desert Plants 3:98-106.
Allred, K.W. 1982. An annotated checklist of poisonous or injurious range plants of New Mexico. New Mexico Coop. Ext. Circular 400 B-14.
Allred, K.W. 1982. Paspalum distichum L. var. indutum Shinners (Poaceae). Great Basin Naturalist 42:101-104.
Allred, K.W. 1982. Describing the grass inflorescence. J. Range Manage. 35:672-675.
Allred, K.W. & F.W. Gould. 1983. Systematics of the Bothriochloa saccharoides complex (Poaceae: Andropogoneae). Syst. Bot. 8:168-184.
Allred, K.W. 1984. Morphologic variation and classification of the North American Aristida purpurea complex (Gramineae). Brittonia 36:382-395.
Allred, K.W. 1984. Studies in the genus Aristida (Gramineae) of the southeastern United States. I. Spikelet variation in A. purpurascens, A. tenuispica, and A. virgata. Rhodora 86:73-77.
Allred, K.W. 1985. Studies in the Aristida (Gramineae) of the southeastern United States. II. Morphometric analysis of A. intermedia and A. longespica. Rhodora 87:137-145.
Lebgue, T. & K.W. Allred. 1985. Flora of the Fort Stanton Experimental Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico. New Mexico Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. Rep. 557. 132 pp.
Allred, K.W. 1985. Studies in the Aristida (Gramineae) of the so utheastern United States. III. Nomenclature and a taxonomic comparison of A. lanosa and A. palustris. Rhodora 87:147-155.
Allred, K.W. 1986. Studies in the Aristida (Gramineae) of the southeastern United States. IV. Key and conspectus. Rhodora 88:367-387.
Allred, K.W. & J.T. Columbus. 1988. The grass spikelet formula: An aid in teaching and identification. J. Range Manage. 41:350-351.
Allred, K.W. & J.T. Columbus. 1988. New Mexico grasses: A synopsis of the classification and a key to the genera. New Mexico Journal of Science 28(1):21-43.
Allred, K.W. & J.T. Columbus. 1989. Additions to the flora of New Mexico. Phytologia 67(5):361-365.
Allred, K.W. 1989. Observations on seed dispersal and implantation in burrograss (Scleropogon brevifolius - Gramineae). Sida 13(4):493-496.
Allred, K.W. 1990. New Mexico grass types and a selected bibliography of New Mexico grass taxonomy. Great Basin Natural. 50(1):73-82.
Allred, K.W. 1990. Elmer Ottis Wooton and the botanizing of New Mexico. Syst. Bot. 15(4):700-719.
Trent, J.S. and K.W. Allred. 1990. A taxonomic comparison of Aristida ternipes Cav. and Aristida hamulosa Henr. (Gramineae). Sida 14(2):251-261.
Allred, K.W. 1991. The biology of Astragalus allochrous: halfmoon locoweed (var. allochrous) and Wooton's locoweed (var. playanus). New Mexico Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. Rept. 652.
Allred, K.W. 1991. Landscaping with native New Mexico grasses. Newsl. Nat. Pl. Soc. N.M. 16:4-5.
Allred, K.W. 1991. Ornamental Grasses for New Mexico. New Mexico Coop. Ext. Ser. Cir. 537. 21 p.
Allred, K.W. 1992. The genus Aristida (Gramineae) in California. Great Basin Naturalist 52(1):41-52.
Allred, K.W. 1993. The Trail of E.O. Wooton. New Mexico Resources, Spring, 9:3-18.
Allred, K.W. 1993. Bromus, section Pnigma, in New Mexico, with a key to the bromegrasses of the state. Phytologia 74(4):319-345.
Fox, W.E. & K.W. Allred. 1994. A bibliography of the plant genera Astragalus and Oxytropis (Fabaceae). NMSU Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. Rep. 686.
Allred, K.W. 1994(1995). A new name for Aristida hamulosa. Phytologia 77:411-413.
Allred, K.W. & J. Valdes-Reyna. 1995. Novelties and notes in North American Aristida (Gramineae). Novon 5(3):209-222.
Roalson, E.H., S.D. Jones, & K.W. Allred. 1995. Carex amplifolia and Carex rossii (Cyperaceae), new to New Mexico and a key to section Montanae in New Mexico. Sida 16(3):592-594.
Allred, K.W. 1996. Vegetative changes in New Mexico rangelands. New Mexico Journal of Science 36:168-231.
Allred, K.W. & J. Valdes-Reyna. 1997. The Aristida pansa complex and a key to the Divaricatae group of North America (Gramineae: Aristideae). Brittonia 49(1):54-66.
Roalson, E.H. & K.W. Allred. 1997. Atlas of New Mexico Astragalus and Oxytropis. New Mexico Agric. Esp. Sta. Res. Rpt. 715. 23 p.
Roalson, E.H. & K.W. Allred. 1997. Vegetative proliferation in Polypogon monspeliensis (Gramineae). Aliso 16:81.
Roalson, E.H. & K.W. Allred. 1998. A floristic study in the Diamond Creek drainage area, Gila National Forest, New Mexico. Aliso 17(1):47-62.
Allred, K.W. 1998. Natural history of New Mexico mosses: A preliminary view. New Mexico Naturalist's Notes 1(1):1-27.
Allred, K.W., C. Darigo, & R.D. Worthington. 1998. Additions to the moss flora of New Mexico. Evansia 15(30):95-98.
Allred, K.W. 1998. Second collection of a little moss, Fissidens littlei (Williams) Grout, rediscovered from a little sinkhole in New Mexico. Evansia 15(4):148-149.
Valdes-R., J. & K.W. Allred. 1998. Las Gramineas del Desierto Chihuahuense: endemismo, especies amenazadas y distribucion disyunta. Proc. VI Congreso Latinoamericano de Botanica. Monographs in Systematic Botany, Missouri Bot. Gard. 68:397-404.
Allred, K.W. 1999. Eponymy of New Mexico grass names. Desert Plants 15(1):3-10.
Darigo, C.E. & K.W. Allred. 2001. Mosses of New Mexico — County checklist. Evansia 18(1):1-18.
Allred, K.W. 2002. Identification and taxonomy of Tamarix (Tamaricaceae) in New Mexico. Desert Plants 18(2):26-32.
Allred, K.W. 2003. Statistical summary of the flora of New Mexico. The New Mexico Botanist 28:1-7.
Valdes-R., J. & K.W. Allred. 2003. El género Aristida (Gramineae) en el noreste de México. Acta Botánica Mexicana 63:1-45.
Johnson, S. & K.W. Allred. 2003. A taxonomic review of the tendril-bearing legumes (Leguminosae) in New Mexico. I. Lathyrus. The New Mexico Botanist 25:1-7.
Allred, K.W. & S. Johnson. 2003. A taxonomic review of the tendril-bearing legumes (Leguminosae) in New Mexico. II. Vicia. The New Mexico Botanist 26:1-5.
Allred, K.W. 2004. Datura (Solanaceae) in New Mexico. The New Mexico Botanist 30:5.
Allred, K.W. 2005. Chenopodium in New Mexico. The New Mexico Botanist 32:1-5.
Allred, K.W. 2005. A synopsis of Symphoricarpos (Caprifoliaceae) in New Mexico. The New Mexico Botanist 33:5-6.
Allred, K.W. 2005. Perennial Festuca (Gramineae) of New Mexico. Desert Plants 21(2):3-12.
Allred, K.W. 2005. Aristidae eludendae: Aristida hitchcockiana (Poaceae) -- a valid species? Sida 21(4):2113-2118.
Allred, K.W. 2005. A Field Guide to the Grasses of New Mexico, 3rd ed. Agric. Exp. Sta. New Mexico State Univ. 388 pp.
Valdés Reyna, J. & K.W. Allred. 2005. Subfamilia Aristidoideae. Flora del Bajío y de Regiones Adyacentes, fasc. 137, Inst. Ecol. Centro Regional del Bajío, Michoacán. 45 pp.