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Fleshy-fruit Gladecress (Leavenworthia crassa)

Leavenworthia crass flower. Photo Credit: Simon Jolly

Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
Legal Status: Federally Endangered
Family: Brassicaceae
State: AL
Nature Serve ID: 135267
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

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Where is Fleshy-fruit Gladecress (Leavenworthia crassa) located in the wild?

Habitat:

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Distribution:

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Fleshy-fruit Gladecress can be found in Alabama

Which CPC Partners conserve Fleshy-fruit Gladecress (Leavenworthia crassa)?

Missouri Botanical Garden

Not Sponsored

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

Endemic to Lawrence and Morgan counties in Alabama and verified from only six sites during a 2009 survey; one site was destroyed by highway construction in 2004. Locally abundant, but only these few localities are known. Likely one of the most imperiled plant species in the Southeast; urgent protection is needed.

Quinn Long

01/01/2010

Residential development appears to be rapidly expanding into the rural areas where this taxon is known to occur. Habitat has been degraded by grazing, road construction, and plowing or cultivation, with one population extirpated by road widening, and anot