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San Miguel Savory (Clinopodium chandleri)

  • Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
  • Legal Status: N/A
  • Family: Lamiaceae
  • State: CA
  • Nature Serve ID: 152210
  • Lifeform: Shrub, Subshrub
  • Date Inducted in National Collection: 10/29/2018
Description:

Clinopodium chandleri is a small shrub with slender branches up to half a meter long from a woody stem base. The toothed or wavy-edged leaves are up to 1.5 centimeters long and wide, the hairy blades borne on short petioles. The herbage is glandular and aromatic. Flowers occur in the leaf axils, and each is bell-shaped with a tubular throat, the corolla white to pale purple and under a centimeter long. Blooming period is March to July (Wikipedia 2018).

Where is San Miguel Savory (Clinopodium chandleri) located in the wild?

Habitat:

Clinopodium chandleri occurs in rocky, gabbroic or metavolcanic Chaparral, Cismontane woodland, Coastal scrub, Riparian woodland, and Valley and foothill grassland (CNPS 2019).

Distribution:

San Diego, Riverside, Orange counties and Northern Baja California.

States & Provinces:

San Miguel Savory can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve San Miguel Savory (Clinopodium chandleri)?

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

Center for Plant Conservation
  • 10/19/2021
  • Genetic Research

In 1998 Philip Cantino and Steven Wagstaff published an article in the journal Brittonia, "A Reexamination of North American Satureja s. l. (Lamiaceae) in Light of Molecular Evidence". They used chloroplast DNA restriction site analysis to reassess the taxonomy within the Satureja complex in North America.

  • 10/11/2020
  • Propagation Research

At this time, germination testing of the seed collections made by SDZG and related research is ongoing.

  • 10/11/2020
  • Seed Collection

in 2018, SDZG made one seed collection of Clinopodium chandleri in San Diego County from McGinty Mountain.

  • 09/01/2020
  • Orthodox Seed Banking

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, San Diego Zoo Global holds 2 accessions of Clinopodium chandleri in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 474 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 2 seed accessions of Clinopodium chandleri from 1 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass 57 maternal plants

Emily Burson
  • 01/28/2019

It is important to ensure the entirety of the species' genetic diversity is conserved ex-situ. Multiple high quality seed collections in long term storage and/or living collections should be made. Research into the best methods of reintroducing the species to the wild is needed.

Emily Burson
  • 01/28/2019

Threatened by residential development, foot traffic, agriculture, and recreational activities. Possibly threatened by horticultural collecting. See Zoe 5:195 (1905) for original description, and Crossosoma 12(1):12 (1986) for taxonomic treatment. (CNPS)

Emily Burson
  • 01/25/2019

in 2018, SDZG made one seed collection of Clinopodium chandleri in San Diego County from McGinty Mountain. 

Emily Burson
  • 01/25/2019

At this time, germination testing of the seed collections made by SDZG and related research is ongoing.

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Nomenclature
Taxon Clinopodium chandleri
Authority
Family Lamiaceae
CPC Number 47035
ITIS
USDA CLCH5
Duration Perennial
Common Names
Associated Scientific Names
Distribution San Diego, Riverside, Orange counties and Northern Baja California.
State Rank
State State Rank
California S2
Ecological Relationships

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