Mt. Tamalpais Lessingia (Lessingia micradenia var. micradenia)

Global Rank: T2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Asteraceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 137129
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

annual herb

Where is Mt. Tamalpais Lessingia (Lessingia micradenia var. micradenia) located in the wild?

Habitat:

grows at elevations of 100 to 500 meters on thin, gravelly soils of serpentine outcrops and roadcuts in chapparal and valley foothill grassland

Distribution:

States & Provinces:

Mt. Tamalpais Lessingia can historically be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Mt. Tamalpais Lessingia (Lessingia micradenia var. micradenia)?

California Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

01/01/2010

roadside clearing, spraying and watershed use for hiking (trampling) and biking, cutting, thinning, prescribed burning activities, invasion of non-native barbed goatgrass

01/01/2010

found only on Mt. Tamalpais and elsewhere among the hells of Marin Co.