Funeral Mountain Blue-eyed-grass (Sisyrinchium funereum)

Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Iridaceae
State: CA, NV
Nature Serve ID: 132909
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Where is Funeral Mountain Blue-eyed-grass (Sisyrinchium funereum) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Funeral Mountain Blue-eyed-grass can be found in California, Nevada

Which CPC Partners conserve Funeral Mountain Blue-eyed-grass (Sisyrinchium funereum)?

California Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

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

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden holds 3 accessions of Sisyrinchium funereum in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 679 seeds of this species in their collection - although some may have been used for curation testing or sent to back up.

08/05/2020

Based on an August 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden has collected 3 seed accessions of Sisyrinchium funereum from 3 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass 30 maternal plants