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Heart-shaped Pitcher-sage (Lepechinia cardiophylla)

  • Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
  • Legal Status: N/A
  • Family: Lamiaceae
  • State: CA
  • Nature Serve ID: 144841
  • Lifeform: Subshrub, Shrub
  • Date Inducted in National Collection:
Description:

Where is Heart-shaped Pitcher-sage (Lepechinia cardiophylla) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Heart-shaped Pitcher-sage can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Heart-shaped Pitcher-sage (Lepechinia cardiophylla)?

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
  • Orthodox Seed Banking

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden holds 1 accessions of Lepechinia cardiophylla in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 394 seeds of this species in their collection - although some may have been used for curation testing or sent to back up.

  • 08/05/2020
  • Seed Collection

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

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Nomenclature
Taxon Lepechinia cardiophylla
Authority Epling
Family Lamiaceae
CPC Number 2471
ITIS 32553
USDA LECA4
Duration Perennial
Common Names California Sage | Heart Shaped Pitcher-sage | heart-leaved pitcher-sage | Santa Ana pitchersage
Associated Scientific Names Lepechinia cardiophylla
Distribution
State Rank
State State Rank
California S2S3
Ecological Relationships

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