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Zapata Bladderpod (Physaria thamnophila)

Photo Credit: San Antonio Botanical Garden
  • Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
  • Legal Status: Federally Endangered
  • Family: Brassicaceae
  • State: TX
  • Nature Serve ID: 159905
  • Lifeform: Forb/herb
  • Date Inducted in National Collection: 02/09/1992
Description:

San Antonio Botanical Garden is actively working on recollecting this species.

Where is Zapata Bladderpod (Physaria thamnophila) located in the wild?

Habitat:

Tamaulipan thorn scrub, gravelly soils, sparsely vegetated shrublands communities of upland habitats with shallow, fast draining, highly erosional soils and semi-arid climate near the Rio Grande.

Distribution:

NA

States & Provinces:

Zapata Bladderpod can be found in Texas

Which CPC Partners conserve Zapata Bladderpod (Physaria thamnophila)?

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Conservation Actions

Nature Serve Biotics
  • 05/02/2017

A narrow endemic of Starr and Zapata counties in extreme southern Texas. Known from only 5 sites.

  • 01/01/2010

herbicides highway maintenence exotics - buffelgrass grazing residential development, alteration of native habitat to improved pastures, infrastructure and urban development, oil and gas development and overgrazing, the extreme rareness of the plant,

  • 01/01/2010

annual, dramatic population fluctuations from year to year 3-4 populations known from South Texas 10,000 individuals (in a good year) in 3 unprotected populations. Currently known from only four populations in Starr and Zapata Counties in southern Texas.

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Nomenclature
Taxon Physaria thamnophila
Authority (Rollins & E.A. Shaw) O'Kane & Al-Shehbaz
Family Brassicaceae
CPC Number 2516
ITIS 823212
USDA LETH3
Duration Perennial
Common Names Zapata Bladderpod
Associated Scientific Names Lesquerella thamnophila | Physaria thamnophila
Distribution NA
State Rank
State State Rank
Texas S1
Ecological Relationships

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