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Truckee barberry (Berberis repens)

  • Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
  • Legal Status: N/A
  • Family: Berberidaceae
  • State: CA
  • Nature Serve ID: 128708
  • Lifeform: Subshrub, Shrub
  • Date Inducted in National Collection:
Description:

No longer taxonomically distinct from the common Berberis aquifolium!!!

Where is Truckee barberry (Berberis repens) located in the wild?

Habitat:

riparian

Distribution:

NA

States & Provinces:

Truckee barberry can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Truckee barberry (Berberis repens)?

  • Regional Parks Botanic Garden

    Not Sponsored
    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

    Nature Serve Biotics
    • 05/02/2017

    Mahonia sonnei is known from only two small populations in a five hundred square meter area along the Truckee River in California. The small evergreen shrub was relocated in 1973 after having been ""lost"" for ninety years. Truckee's barberry is threatened by vandalism, horticultural collecting, and changing land uses. It was listed as Endangered by the Fish and Wildlife Service in 1979. Kartesz (1999) and the California Native Plant Society do not treat the plant as a distinct species but instead include it with their treatment of Mahonia repens.

    • 01/01/2010

    garbage dumping and development

    • 01/01/2010

    One small patch in gravelly bank of Truckee River at town of Truckee (Placer Co) CA. The site is precarious and needs to be monitored.

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    Nomenclature
    Taxon Berberis repens
    Authority Lindl.
    Family Berberidaceae
    CPC Number 2779
    ITIS 18832
    USDA MARE11
    Duration Perennial
    Common Names Truckee barberry | creeping barberry
    Associated Scientific Names Mahonia sonnei | Berberis repens | Mahonia repens | Odostemon repens | Berberis aquifolium var. repens
    Distribution NA
    State Rank
    State State Rank
    California SNR
    Ecological Relationships

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    Pollinators
    Common Name Name in Text Association Type Source InteractionID
    Bees
    Bees Confirmed Pollinator Link
    Bees Confirmed Pollinator Link
    Butterflies & Moths
    Brush-footed butterflies Painted Lady Butterfly Confirmed Pollinator Link
    Butterflies Confirmed Pollinator Link
    Brush-footed butterflies Argynnis (Speyeria) callippe Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Hairstreaks Callophrys dumetorum homoperplexa Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Hairstreaks Callophrys augustinus Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Hairstreaks Callophrys eryphon Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Hairstreaks Callophrys sheridanii Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Azures Celastrina lucia sidara Jamet Chu Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Skippers Erynnis persius Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Skippers Erynnis telemachus Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Whites Euchloe ausonides Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Blues Glaucopsyche lygdamus Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Brush-footed butterflies Polygonia gracilis zephyrus Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Brush-footed butterflies Polygonia satyrus Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Hairstreaks Strymon melinus Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Brush-footed butterflies Vanessa cardui Suspected Pollinator Floral Link
    Other
    Insects Confirmed Pollinator Link

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