Search / Plant Profile / Galium californicum ssp. sierrae

Plant Profile

El Dorado Bedstraw (Galium californicum ssp. sierrae)

Global Rank: T1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: Federally Endangered
Family: Rubiaceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 129288
Lifeform: Forb/herb, Subshrub
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Where is El Dorado Bedstraw (Galium californicum ssp. sierrae) located in the wild?

Habitat:

gabbroic or serpentine-derived soils in the foothills of western El Dorado, Nevada, or Tuolumne Counties within chaparral or oak woodland communities oak woodland areas, including sites with ponderosa pine and gray pine

Distribution:

States & Provinces:

El Dorado Bedstraw can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve El Dorado Bedstraw (Galium californicum ssp. sierrae)?

California Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 06/09/17

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

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, University of California Botanical Garden holds 1 accessions of Galium californicum subsp. sierrae in orthodox seed collection. We are uncertain as to how many total seeds are in this collection.

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden holds 1 accessions of Galium californicum subsp. sierrae in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 15 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, University of California Botanical Garden has collected 2 seed accessions of Galium californicum subsp. sierrae from 2 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass 8 maternal plants

01/01/2010

one or more of the following: urbanization and the ensuing habitat fragmentation, inadequate regulatory mechanisms, road construction and maintenance, herbicide spraying, change in fire frequency, off-road vehicle use, unauthorized dumping, horse

01/01/2010

restricted to one localized area-Pine Hill and surrounding ridges to the west