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Sea Dahlia (Coreopsis maritima)

  • Global Rank: G2 - Imperiled
  • Legal Status: N/A
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • State: CA
  • Nature Serve ID: 154108
  • Lifeform: Subshrub, Shrub, Forb/herb
  • Date Inducted in National Collection:
Description:

Where is Sea Dahlia (Coreopsis maritima) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Sea Dahlia can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Sea Dahlia (Coreopsis maritima)?

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
  • Orthodox Seed Banking

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, San Diego Zoo Global holds 4 accessions of Leptosyne maritima in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 104358 seeds of this species in their collection - although some may have been used for curation testing or sent to back up.

  • 09/01/2020
  • Orthodox Seed Banking

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden holds 4 accessions of Leptosyne maritima in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 75094 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 4 seed accessions of Leptosyne maritima from 4 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass 341 maternal plants

  • 08/05/2020
  • Seed Collection

Based on an August 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden has collected 4 seed accessions of Leptosyne maritima from 2 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass an unknown number of maternal plants

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Nomenclature
Taxon Coreopsis maritima
Authority (Nutt.) Hook. f.
Family Asteraceae
CPC Number 8135
ITIS 37144
USDA COMA10
Duration Perennial
Common Names sea dahlia
Associated Scientific Names Coreopsis maritima | Leptosyne maritima | Tuckermannia maritima
Distribution
State Rank
State State Rank
California S1
Ecological Relationships

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