Rare Plant Conservation

The New Mexico Rare Plant Conservations Scorecard provides an analysis of the current conservation status of the 235 Strategy rare plants including threats, degree of protection, and actions needed to conserve species (management actions, inventories, monitoring, taxonomic work, etc.). The primary use of the Scorecard is to help managers and researchers identify and prioritize target species for protection, conservation and management actions, including surveys, monitoring, and filling of data gaps. In addition, the scorecard can be used to quickly identify documented and potential threats and assess the status of rare plant species. The Scorecard can be sorted in a variety of ways to help establish a target list, including sorting by land ownership, agency status, conservation ranks, threats, ecoregion, or conservation actions needed. More information on the Scorecard can be found in the New Mexico Rare Plant Conservation Strategy.

Data and Resources

Information

Field Value
Division Forestry Division
Contact Name Erika Rowe
Contact Email erika.rowe@emnrd.nm.gov
Publication Date 2020-03-24
Known Uses of Data * Land Management * Conservation * Biome support
Data Collection Frequency One-time
Data Publishing Frequency As Needed
Data Quality Procedures * List A contains species where there were sufficient data to use the scorecard methods above and for which there was moderate to very high confidence in the data * List B contains species for which there were sufficient data to generate an overall conservation status but the confidence was low. * List C contains species where there were not sufficient data to generate a conservation status using the methods above. * List D contains species that are regional endemics for which existing data indicates they are stable and not a current conservation priority.
Version 1.0
Geographic Location New Mexico
Data Source Natural Heritage New Mexico
Last Updated 07 November 2025
Published 10 April 2023