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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 be found in California

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

California Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden holds 3 accessions of Lessingia micradenia var. micradenia in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 2567 seeds of this species in their collection - although some may have been used for curation testing or sent to back up.

08/05/2020

Based on an August 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden has collected 1 seed accessions of Lessingia micradenia var. micradenia from 1 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass 14 maternal plants

08/05/2020

Based on an August 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Native Plant Society has collected 2 seed accessions of Lessingia micradenia var. micradenia from 1 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass 118 maternal plants

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.