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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)?

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 01/12/19

The Huntington

Not Sponsored

Assigned 10/30/23

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Conservation Actions

Center for Plant Conservation

10/19/2021

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

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

10/11/2020

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

09/01/2020

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

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.