Saw-toothed Lewisia (Lewisia serrata)

Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Portulacaceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 159993
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection: 11/20/2023

Description:

Where is Saw-toothed Lewisia (Lewisia serrata) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Saw-toothed Lewisia can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Saw-toothed Lewisia (Lewisia serrata)?

University of California-Santa Cruz Arboretum & Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 04/24/23

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

Center for Plant Conservation

10/11/2021

Sandi Richerson of CSU Sacramento completed a Master's thesis entitled "Contributions to an Understanding of the Patterns of Phenotypic Divergence Between" Lewisia Cantelovii" JT Howell (Portulacaceae) and" Lewisia Serrata" Heckard and Stebbins in the Sierra Nevada of California" in 1998.

Center for Plant Conservation

10/11/2021

In 1974, L. R. Heckard and G. L. Stebbins described a Lewesia serrata as a new species found in three locations along the American river. Their paper, "A new Lewisia (Portulacaceae) from the Sierra Nevada of California" was published in the Brittonia.