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Alabama Snow-wreath (Neviusia alabamensis)

Neviusia alabamensis in flower. Photo Credit: Matthew Albrecht
  • Global Rank: G3 - Vulnerable
  • Legal Status: N/A
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • State: AL, AR, GA, MO, MS, TN
  • Nature Serve ID: 128124
  • Lifeform: Shrub
  • Date Inducted in National Collection: 03/18/2019
Description:

deciduous shrub

Where is Alabama Snow-wreath (Neviusia alabamensis) located in the wild?

Habitat:

blocky limestone boulders and along limestone-bedded, temporary streams below the sandstone caprock on the Cumberland Plateau moist hardwood forests of northern sugar maple, Biltmore ash, and chinaquapin oak

Distribution:

NA

States & Provinces:

Alabama Snow-wreath can historically be found in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee

Which CPC Partners conserve Alabama Snow-wreath (Neviusia alabamensis)?

  • Missouri Botanical Garden

    Sponsored
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    Conservation Actions
    Assigned 06/09/17

  • The Dawes Arboretum

    Not Sponsored
    Assigned 03/18/19

  • Mt. Cuba Center

    Not Sponsored
    Conservation Actions
    Assigned 04/16/24
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    Conservation Actions

    Bradley Delfeld
    • 01/03/2025
      • Living Collection

    The Missouri Botanical Garden currently has approximately 350 plants from 153 different accessions in its living collections. The majority of these individuals are of wild provenance.

    Bradley Delfeld
    • 01/03/2025
      • Living Collection Genetic Research Demographic Research

    In May 2023 and 2024, scientists and horticultural staff from the Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) collected approximately 450 root divisions from about a dozen wild populations of Neviusia alabamensis. The collected plants were part of an ongoing research project conducted by MBG scientists to study the phenotypic and genetic variation among the extant populations of Neviusia alabamensis and several other rare and endangered species.

    Tina Stanley
    • 04/16/2024
      • Living Collection

    As of March 2024, Mt. Cuba Center holds Neviusia alabamensis in living collection.

    Nature Serve Biotics
    • 05/02/2017

    Rare throughout its range, with widely scattered 'populations' that are mostly or entirely clonal. Sexual reproduction does not appear to be occurring at all; little or no seed production has been observed and seedlings have never been found at any of the sites. Although this species has been cultivated far north of its natural range, wild populations may be restricted to some specific habitat condition(s) near the boundary of the Misssissippi Embayment of the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Plain.

    • 01/01/2010

    Recorded from one county in Georgia.

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    Nomenclature
    Taxon Neviusia alabamensis
    Authority Gray
    Family Rosaceae
    CPC Number 2956
    ITIS 25266
    USDA NEAL
    Duration Perennial
    Common Names Alabama Snow-wreath | Snow Wreath
    Associated Scientific Names Neviusia alabamensis
    Distribution NA
    State Rank
    State State Rank
    Alabama S2
    Arkansas S1S2
    Georgia S1
    Missouri SH
    Mississippi S1
    Tennessee S2
    Ecological Relationships

    Photos

    Neviusia alabamensis in flower. Photo Credit: Matthew Albrecht

    Neviusia alabamensis population growing on a cliffside overlooking the Tennessee River

    Photo Credit: Noah Dell

    Neviusia alabamensis flower with an inchworm atop

    Photo Credit: Matthew Albrecht

    Neviusia alabamensis in full flower

    Photo Credit: Matthew Albrecht

    A root cutting of Neviusia alabamensis being collected to be transported back to the Missouri Botanical Garden for propagation.

    Photo Credit: Matthew Albrecht

    Neviusia alabamensis collection that was grown in the Missouri Botanical Garden greenhouse to be used in a research project studying genetic and phenotypic variation among wild populations.

    Photo Credit: Jordyn Riehn

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