Island Mallow (Lavatera assurgentiflora ssp. assurgentiflora)

Global Rank: T1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Malvaceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 159256
Lifeform: Shrub, Subshrub
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Where is Island Mallow (Lavatera assurgentiflora ssp. assurgentiflora) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Island Mallow can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Island Mallow (Lavatera assurgentiflora ssp. assurgentiflora)?

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 02/09/18

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, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden holds 2 accessions of Lavatera assurgentiflora subsp. assurgentiflora in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 376 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, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden has collected 2 seed accessions of Lavatera assurgentiflora subsp. assurgentiflora from 2 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass 11 maternal plants