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Plant Profile

Delicate Clarkia (Clarkia delicata)

Global Rank: G3 - Vulnerable
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Onagraceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 157107
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection: 12/15/2020

Description:

Where is Delicate Clarkia (Clarkia delicata) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Delicate Clarkia can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Delicate Clarkia (Clarkia delicata)?

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned

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Conservation Actions

Center for Plant Conservation

12/13/2021

In their journal article "Reassessment of phylogenetic relationships in Clarkia sect. Sympherica" , published in the American Journal of Botany, 2003, V. S. Ford and L. D. Gottlieb re-define the relationships of Clarkia spp. via analysis of nucleotide sequences.

Center for Plant Conservation

12/13/2021

Wallace R. Ernst published his PhD thesis, "The Derivation of Clarkia Delicata and Clarakia Similis, Two Allotetraploid Species" at the University of California, Los Angelos-Botanical Science in 1953.

Center for Plant Conservation

12/13/2021

Nancy L. Smith-Huerta examines seed germination rates of allotetraploid Clarkia species and their diploid parents in "Seed Germination in Related Diploid and Allotetraploid Clarkia Species" published in The Botanical Gazette, 1984.

Center for Plant Conservation

12/13/2021

Published in Evolution, April 2002, "Single mutations silence PGiC2 genes in two very recent allotetraploid species of Clarkia" by authors V. S. Ford and L. D. Gottlieb explore mutations in tetraploid Clarkia and consider the timeline of divergence.

Center for Plant Conservation

12/13/2021

Nancy L. Smith-Huerta authored a 1986 paper, "Isozymic diversity in three allotetraploid Clarkia species and their putative diploid progenitors" published in the Journal of Heredity, in which relationships between allotetraploid species and their diploid parents are examined via electrophoretic analysis.

Center for Plant Conservation

12/13/2021

In a 1984 American Journal of Botany article, "Development of Flower Form in an Allotetraploid Clarkia and Its Parental Diploid Species", Nancy L. Smith-Huerta assesses how an allotetraploid variant of C. delicata differs from its diploid parents.

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, San Diego Zoo Global holds 2 accessions of Clarkia delicata in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 67548 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 Clarkia delicata from 2 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass 436 maternal plants