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Merced Clarkia (Clarkia lingulata)

Photo Credit: University of California Berkeley

Global Rank: G1 - Critically Imperiled
Legal Status: N/A
Family: Onagraceae
State: CA
Nature Serve ID: 157586
Lifeform: Forb/herb
Date Inducted in National Collection:

Description:

Where is Merced Clarkia (Clarkia lingulata) located in the wild?

States & Provinces:

Merced Clarkia can be found in California

Which CPC Partners conserve Merced Clarkia (Clarkia lingulata)?

California Botanic Garden

Not Sponsored

Conservation Actions

Assigned 06/09/17

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Conservation Actions

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, University of California Botanical Garden holds 2 accessions of Clarkia lingulata in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 8289 seeds of this species in their collection - although some may have been used for curation testing or sent to back up.

09/01/2020

Based on an September 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden holds 4 accessions of Clarkia lingulata in orthodox seed collection. There are as many as 261494 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, University of California Botanical Garden has collected 2 seed accessions of Clarkia lingulata from 2 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass 258 maternal plants

08/05/2020

Based on an August 2020 extract of the California Plant Rescue Database, California Botanic Garden has collected 3 seed accessions of Clarkia lingulata from 1 plant occurrences listed in the California Natural Diversity Database. These collections together emcompass an unknown number of maternal plants