Acknowledgments 



Earlier incarnations of this Checklist (Snow04; Snow07a,b) built from earlier checklists and 

 databases produced or maintained by Ronald Hartman and Burrell "Ernie" Nelson, Kelly Allred, 

 William Weber and Ronald Wittmann, Chris Frazier, Jane Mygatt, and Ken Heil and Steve 

 O'Kane, Jr. My thanks to the above individuals and Ben Legler, John Kartesz, Peter Hoch, Bill 

 Jennings, Monique McHenry, Don Hazlett, Pamela Smith, Bonnie Heidel, Leigh Johnson, Ihsan 

 Al-Shehbaz, Dirk Albach, Eric Ribbens, Steve Popovich, Donald Farrar, Peter Root, Barry 

 Johnston, Greg Brown, Andrew Salywon, Michael Schiebout, David Remsen, George Argus, 

 Georgia Doyle, Tim Hogan, Tim Dickinson, Tim Evans, Joe Kirkbride, Mark Egger, Friedrich 

 Lauria, Rick Hammer, Alan Whittemore, and John Gaskin. For annotating specimens during my 

 tenure at GREE (and typically other regional herbaria) thanks to Don Hazlett, Pamela Smith, Jeff 

 Brasher, Bob Dorn, James Reveal, Andrew Hipp, Andrew Salywon, Stan Welsh, Rob Soreng, 

 Paul Peterson, Kelly Allred, Ron Hartman, Bill Jennings and Ben Legler. My apologies to those 

 whom I neglected to record. Thanks also to Bob Williams, Marilyn Orris, Mary Jane Niemann, 

 Pamela Smith, and Marty Arlington for their work at GREE during my tenure at UNC, which 

 liberated me somewhat from the busy-ness of curating an active herbarium during my tenure at 

 UNC and which helped make earlier versions of the Checklist a reality. Georgia Doyle 

 generously volunteered to be curator of photos for three years for the SRMR flora project and 

 developed the database used to document photos for the interactive key project. 



My sincere thanks to the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. National Park 

 Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U. S. Department of Defense, Wyoming Game and Fish, 

 New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, New Mexico State Parks, Colorado Division of 

 Wildlife, and Vermejo Park Ranch for their help and interest in the study of plants. Employees 

 of Natural Heritage Programs in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico have been important 

 contributors to our knowledge of plants in the SRMR. The Nature Conservancy has facilitated 

 botanical work in our region in numerous ways, including allowing access to privately held 

 properties. Many other individuals have provided assistance in other ways. The landowners and 

 managers of numerous ranches, particularly in New Mexico, have allowed us to collect on their 

 properties. We appreciate their commitment to conservation of our native flora and fauna. 



Assembling the Checklist has been facilitated by the Flora of North America project, which has 

 been of considerable value to regional projects such as this one, and whose published volumes 

 have provided insights regarding synonymy and numerous taxonomic problems. 



Support for development and maintenance of the Checklist comes from the National Science 

 Foundation (DBI-0237149) to P. M. Simmons, N. Snow, T. Ranker, R. Guralnick, and R. L. 

 Hartman, the Colorado Native Plant Society (http://www.conps.org), and Native Plant Society of 

 New Mexico ( http://npsnm.unm.edu/) . 



I take full responsibility for all oversights and errors. 



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