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Plant Profile

Bailey's Ball-moss (Tillandsia baileyi)

Photo Credit: San Antonio Botanical Garden

Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Bromeliaceae
State: TX
Nature Serve ID: 140082
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Categories of Interest: Cacti/Succulents
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Where is Bailey's Ball-moss (Tillandsia baileyi) located in the wild?

Habitat:

coastal live oak high humidity semi-desert on live oak or ebony ebony-snakeye plant community

Distribution:

States & Provinces:

Bailey's Ball-moss can be found in Texas

Which CPC Partners conserve Bailey's Ball-moss (Tillandsia baileyi)?

San Antonio Botanical Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 06/09/17

CPC's Plant Sponsorship Program provides long term stewardship of rare plants in our National Collection. We are so grateful for all our donors who have made the Plant Sponsorship Program so successful. We are in the process of acknowledging all our wonderful plant sponsorship donors on our website. This is a work in progress and will be updated regularly.

Conservation Actions

Tina Stanley

08/29/2022

As of August 2022, San Antonio Botanical Garden holds this species in living collection and has conducted propagation research.

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

Known only from southern Texas (where it is rare) and adjacent Tamaulipas, Mexico. Some sites have been extirpated by urban expansion. In the vegetative form, this species is often mistaken for another, common species that is widely, but incorrectly, believed to be parasitic, and is often sprayed with poisons. Collectors have also contributed to this species' rarity.

01/01/2010

< 1000 individuals in 4 sites in TX and Mexico