Jim Morefield Curator

Joined: Sep 2, 2014 Last Active: Sep 17, 2026 iNaturalist

Retired after 31 years as lead Botanist for the Nevada Division of Natural Heritage in Carson City, Nevada, 1991-2022. Now an Affiliate of the University of Nevada, Reno, Museum of Natural History and herbarium, and continuing to pursue independent floristic and systematic botany research. I've studied and photographed vascular plants extensively in the southwestern North American deserts and mountains since 1980.

Expertise with the White Mountains of CA-NV and surrounding region, Nevada rare plants, the Great Basin and Mojave Desert, and Asteraceae (sunflower family). Authored the genera Ancistrocarphus, Chaenactis, Chamaechaenactis, Diaperia, Filago, Hesperevax, Logfia, Micropus, Micropsis, Psilocarphus, and Stylocline for Flora of North America North of Mexico, The Jepson Manual, and other projects, plus several new taxa and names.

Deep Springs College, California, 1979-1981. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, 1983-1986 (B.S., Botany and Geology). California Botanic Garden and Claremont Graduate University, 1986-1992 (Ph.D., Botany; Evolution & Systematics of Stylocline).

Many observations here imported from Flickr where higher-resolution photos are available for download (ask if you don't find one!).

Avatar source: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11308350

To iNaturalist admins/curators and all who outlive me: Please never delete my iNaturalist account. In the event of my passing I would like all of my observations, IDs, and comments to remain on the site in perpetuity (just like specimens in an herbarium or museum).