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Spreading Schiedea (Schiedea spergulina var. leiopoda)

Schiedea spergulina, Kauai. Photo Credit: National Tropical Botanical Garden

Global Rank: T1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: Federally Endangered
Family: Caryophyllaceae
State: HI
Nature Serve ID: 159766
Lifeform: Subshrub, Shrub
Date Inducted in National Collection: 02/09/1992

Description:

Where is Spreading Schiedea (Schiedea spergulina var. leiopoda) located in the wild?

Habitat:

usually found on bare rock outcrops or sparsely vegetated portions of rocky cliff faces or cliff bases in diverse lowland mesic forests at elevations between 590 and 3,000 ft.

Distribution:

States & Provinces:

Spreading Schiedea can be found in Hawaii

Which CPC Partners conserve Spreading Schiedea (Schiedea spergulina var. leiopoda)?

National Tropical Botanical Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

Center for Plant Conservation

12/02/2021

The purpose of the project is to augment the exisitng population of Schiedea spergulina var. leiopoda at Lawai Valley, Kauai on land owned by the National Tropical Botanical Garden. Invasive plant species were controlled - including Fourcraea foetida, Leucaena leucocephala, Panicum maximum, Rhynchelytrum repens, and Schinus terebinthifolius. Seeds rom wild plants were collected and propagated at the NTBG nursery. Aprroximately 400 small plants were planted back into the site in 2007-2008. The planting site is a narrow ridge above a 500+ foot cliff. Ledges on this cliff are primary habitat for this species. A demographic study of this population was initiated in 2008. Outplant survival was approximately 75% after 1 year. New seedlings recruited in 2008 apparently as a result of invasive removal along the cliff edge. Outplants flowered in their first year after germination.

Center for Plant Conservation

12/02/2021

Nature Serve Biotics

05/02/2017

Endemic to southern Kauai. There is only one currently known occurrence consisting of fewer than 100 plants. This occurrence is threatened by the invasion of alien plant species.

01/01/2010

weeds landslides competition with alien plant species rock slides stochastic extinction and/or reduced reproductive vigor, feral goats

01/01/2010

< 100 individuals in 1 site, Kauai 1 population of ca. 50-100 individuals (Kauai)