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Little Mousetail (Myosurus minimus ssp. apus)

  • Global Rank: T2 - Imperiled
  • Legal Status: N/A
  • Family: Ranunculaceae
  • State: CA, OR
  • Nature Serve ID: 136814
  • Lifeform: Forb/herb
  • Date Inducted in National Collection:
Description:

Where is Little Mousetail (Myosurus minimus ssp. apus) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Little Mousetail can be found in California, Oregon

Which CPC Partners conserve Little Mousetail (Myosurus minimus ssp. apus)?

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, San Diego Zoo Global holds 4 accessions of Myosurus minimus subsp. apus in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 1256560 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, San Diego Zoo Global has collected 4 seed accessions of Myosurus minimus subsp. apus from 3 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass 354 maternal plants

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Nomenclature
Taxon Myosurus minimus ssp. apus
Authority (Greene) Campbell
Family Ranunculaceae
CPC Number 2910
ITIS 18788
USDA MYMI2
Duration Annual
Common Names Little Mousetail | tiny mousetail
Associated Scientific Names Myosurus minimus ssp. apus | Myosurus minimus L.
Distribution
State Rank
State State Rank
California S2
Oregon SNR
Ecological Relationships

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Pollinators
Common Name Name in Text Association Type Source InteractionID
Bees
Sweat bees Chloralictus zephyrus Not Specified Link

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