A Flora of Bandelier National Monument

Jacobs, Brian

During the course of a two year study over 1600 specimens were collected, some 1200 of which were deposited at the Bandelier herbarium. The remaining 400, as well as over 600 duplicate collections were deposited at the Duke University herbarium. In addition, the existing Bandelier plant collection of some 600 specimens was annotated. All of the specimen label data, over 2200 individual records, was entered to the Natural Resource Management Plant Database (Bandflor.dbf) on DBASE III PLUS software. Data for specimens in the Bandelier herbarium was also converted to the NPS Museum Cataloging System/ANCS (Nhdata.dbf) on modified DBASE III PLUS software, using a program written by park volunteer Steve Bracker. The present study has produced the first comprehensive listing of vascular plants for the monument. This listing is fully documented by the plant collection at Bandelier and includes 748 taxa, 720 species, 347 genera and 86 families. The known documented plant life for the monument has been more than doubled as a result of this study and many new records have been added to the Jemez Mountain region as well.