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Fine-flower Gilia (Gilia leptantha ssp. leptantha)

Gilia leptantha ssp. leptantha from Fish Creek in the San Bernardino Mountains, California.

Photo Credit: Duncan Bell

Global Rank: T2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Polemoniaceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 137023
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection: 09/15/2022

Description:

Where is Fine-flower Gilia (Gilia leptantha ssp. leptantha) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Fine-flower Gilia can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Fine-flower Gilia (Gilia leptantha ssp. leptantha)?

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

Cheryl Birker

09/09/2022

The California Botanic Garden made a conservation seed collection from a population of Gilia leptantha subsp. leptantha (San Bernardino gilia) located at Fish Creek near the Aspen Gove Trailhead in the San Bernardino Mountains of San Bernardino County, California on July 21, 2022. This is a recollection of the 2003 seed collection made by Valerie Soza (CalBG Accession #21365), and a seed sample was sent to the National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation for use in the CPC/IMLS RNA Integrity Study.

Center for Plant Conservation

08/18/2021

In 2021, CPC contracted the California Botanic Garden to recollect seed from a population currently held in long term orthodox seed storage as part of an IMLS-funded seed longevity experiment. The National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation will evaluate how germination tested viability and RNA Integrity of seed lots decline over time in storage.

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden holds 2 accessions of Gilia leptantha subsp. leptantha in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 4788 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 2 seed accessions of Gilia leptantha subsp. leptantha from 2 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass 173 maternal plants