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Zapata Bladderpod (Physaria thamnophila)

Photo Credit: San Antonio Botanical Garden

Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: Federally Endangered
Family: Brassicaceae
State: TX
Nature Serve ID: 159905
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection: 02/09/1992

Description:

San Antonio Botanical Garden is actively working on recollecting this species.

Where is Zapata Bladderpod (Physaria thamnophila) located in the wild?

Habitat:

Tamaulipan thorn scrub, gravelly soils, sparsely vegetated shrublands communities of upland habitats with shallow, fast draining, highly erosional soils and semi-arid climate near the Rio Grande.

Distribution:

States & Provinces:

Zapata Bladderpod can be found in Texas

Which CPC Partners conserve Zapata Bladderpod (Physaria thamnophila)?

San Antonio Botanical Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

A narrow endemic of Starr and Zapata counties in extreme southern Texas. Known from only 5 sites.

01/01/2010

herbicides highway maintenence exotics - buffelgrass grazing residential development, alteration of native habitat to improved pastures, infrastructure and urban development, oil and gas development and overgrazing, the extreme rareness of the plant,

01/01/2010

annual, dramatic population fluctuations from year to year 3-4 populations known from South Texas 10,000 individuals (in a good year) in 3 unprotected populations. Currently known from only four populations in Starr and Zapata Counties in southern Texas.