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North Umpqua Kalmiopsis (Kalmiopsis fragrans)

Kalmiopsis fragrans, fragrant kalmiopsis

Photo Credit: Kris Freitag

Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Ericaceae
State: OR
Nature Serve ID: 151001
Lifeform: Shrub
Date Inducted in National Collection: 09/15/2022

Description:

Where is North Umpqua Kalmiopsis (Kalmiopsis fragrans) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

North Umpqua Kalmiopsis can be found in Oregon

Which CPC Partners conserve North Umpqua Kalmiopsis (Kalmiopsis fragrans)?

Rae Selling Berry Seed Bank & Plant Conservation Program

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 08/06/19

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

Kris Freitag

12/23/2021

As part of CPC's IMLS funded initiative to determine seed storage longevity in wild rare plant species, seed of fragrant kalmiopsis (Kalmiopsis fragrans) was collected at a Research Natural Area in the Umpqua National Forest. This plant is found only in Oregon's Douglas County, on and around tuffaceous rock. This made for a beautiful and exciting collecting site, as the plants grew mostly ON the rock. They were striking in bloom against the rock; in fruit, collecting required careful traversing of steep rocky outcrops. Given how prolifically they produce seeds, and how tiny the seeds are, it was easy to collect the required 10,000 seeds. It was much more difficult teasing out apparent good seeds and counting them under the microscope.

Center for Plant Conservation

08/18/2021

In 2021, CPC contracted the Rae Selling Berry Seed Bank to recollect seed from a population currently held in long term orthodox seed storage as part of an IMLS-funded seed longevity experiment. The National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation will evaluate how germination tested viability and RNA Integrity of seed lots decline over time in storage.