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Few-flower Navarretia (Navarretia leucocephala ssp. pauciflora)

  • Global Rank: T1 - Critically Imperiled
  • Legal Status: Federally Endangered
  • Family: Polemoniaceae
  • State: CA
  • Nature Serve ID: 133130
  • Lifeform: Forb/herb
  • Date Inducted in National Collection:
Description:

clonal stinging hairs

Where is Few-flower Navarretia (Navarretia leucocephala ssp. pauciflora) located in the wild?

Habitat:

volcanic ash substrate, clay pan vernal pools in chaparral, grassland, or mixed coniferous forest in southern Lake and Napa Counties.

Distribution:

NA

States & Provinces:

Few-flower Navarretia can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Few-flower Navarretia (Navarretia leucocephala ssp. pauciflora)?

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Conservation Actions

  • 09/01/2020
  • Orthodox Seed Banking

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden holds 2 accessions of Navarretia leucocephala subsp. pauciflora in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 10000 seeds of this species in their collection - although some may have been used for curation testing or sent to back up.

  • 01/01/2010

urbanization, wetland drainage, . . .trampling, feral pigs, road widening.

  • 01/01/2010

more than a dozen occur in the region. Grows in vernal pools and mesic grasslands and are found in Lake, Napa, Solano, and Somona Counties,

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Nomenclature
Taxon Navarretia leucocephala ssp. pauciflora
Authority (H. Mason) Day
Family Polemoniaceae
CPC Number 2931
ITIS 524330
USDA NALEP
Duration Annual
Common Names Few-flowered Navarretia | fewflower navarretia
Associated Scientific Names Navarretia leucocephala ssp. pauciflora | Navarretia pauciflora
Distribution NA
State Rank
State State Rank
California S1
Ecological Relationships

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