Celebrating Our Local Environment on the Pajarito Plateau
By Chick Keller The eastern part of the Jemez Volcano slopes down to the Rio Grande. The Pajarito Plateau interrupts …
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Jemez Mountain Herbarium Reaches Milestone
By Chick Keller In 2005 I was given several boxes of professionally mounted and labeled plants that were collected …
Wildflower of the Week by Chick Keller
This week’s flower is fetid goosefoot, and it does give off a fetid odor. However, all odorous faults are forgiven …
Wildflower of the Week by Chick Keller
This week we highlight a flower many of you may know and nearly all New Mexican residents have seen, matchbrush (Gutierrezia sarothrae), …
Wildflower of the Week by Chick Keller
This week’s flower, Heliomeris multiflora, is one of the many yellow composite flowers we see during our glorious fall season. You …
Wildflower of the Week by Chick Keller
A few weeks ago, Debby Hyman, Christine Cloyd, and Rozelle Wright took a Gentle Walk in Bayo Canyon. Rozelle found …
Wildflower of the Week by Chick Keller
This week’s flower – Showy Daisy Fleabane, or Erigeron speciosus – is one now blooming nearly everywhere, from the town up …
Wildflower of the Week by Chick Keller
This week’s plant is another lily, Death Camas. Anticlea elegans is its new name, and Zigadenis elegans is its old …
Wildflower of the Week by Chick Keller
This week’s wildflower is one of our most beautiful—mariposa lily (Calochortus nuttallii). It blooms in our high mountain meadows, often …