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Endangered

Conservation Status

NatureServe: G2 Imperiled

US Endangered Species Act: Endangered. The Lompoc yerba santa was first listed on March 20, 2000. It is currently designated as Endangered in the Entire Range. Within the area covered by this listing, this species is known to occur in: California. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service California-Nevada Office (California-Nevada Office (CNO)) is the lead region for this entity. More info.

Taxonomy

Notes:

Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 15-Mar-2000

Place of publication: Leafl. W. Bot. 1:40. 1933

Name verified on 12-Apr-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Physical Description

Family Hydrophyllaceae:

Herbs or shrubs, glabrous or pubescent, occasionally glandular, bristly, or thorny. Leaves alternate or opposite, occasionally in a basal rosette, simple or variously lobed or divided, without stipules. Inflorescences solitary flowers, cymose, or paniculate. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, usually 5-merous, often showy. Calyx ± gamosepalous, sinuses sometimes appendaged. Corolla gamopetalous, campanulate, tubular, or rotate; lobes overlapping in bud. Stamens usually 5; filaments attached to corolla, often alternating with scalelike appendages; anthers 2-locular, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary superior, 1- or 2- (several) locular, with 2 parietal placentae; ovules few or numerous. Styles 1 or 2, usually lobed or divided; stigma capitate. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, rarely also septicidal or opening irregularly. Seeds usually with a sculptured or pitted coat; endosperm enclosing a small embryo.

Eighteen to 22 genera and ca. 300 species: mostly in North and South America, with a few in Africa, Asia, and Australia; one genus with one species in China.^[1]

Habit: Subshrub, Shrub

Distribution

Range and Population

North America

Native: .

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Similar Species

Members of the genus Eriodictyon:

There are approximately 45 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus: E. californicum australe · E. californicum glutinosum · E. crassifolium benthamianum · E. crassifolium grayanum · E. altissimum (Indian Knob Mountain Balm) · E. angustifolium (Narrow-Leafed Yerba Santa) · E. angustifolium var. pubens · E. californicum (California Yerba Santa) · E. californicum f. latifolia · E. californicum f. linearis · E. californicum subsp. australe · E. californicum subsp. glutinosum · E. californicum subvar. coarctatum · E. californicum var. lanatum · E. californicum var. pubens · E. californicus · E. californicus var. pubens · E. capitatum (Lompoc Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium (Thick-Leaf Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium Benth. var. crassifolium Benth. (Thickleaf Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium Benth. var. nigrescens Brand (Thickleaf Yerba Santa) · E. crassifolium subsp. benthamianum · E. crassifolium subsp. grayanum · E. crassifolium var. crassifolium · E. crassifolium var. nigrescens · E. crassifolium var. niveum · E. crassifolium var. traskiae · E. crassifolium var. typica · E. glutinosum · E. glutinosum var. angustifolium · E. glutinosum var. serratum · E. lobbii · E. niveum · E. parryi · E. sessifolium · E. sessilifolium · E. tomentosum (Woolly Yerba Santa) · E. tormentosum · E. traskiae (Pacific Yerba Santa) · E. traskiae smithii · E. tricalyx · E. trichocalyx (Hairy Yerba Santa) · E. trichocalyx lanatum var. lanatum · E. trichocalyx var. lanatum · E. trichocalyx var. trichocalyx

Bibliography

• Fang Rhui-cheng & Huang Shu-hua in Wu Cheng-yih, ed. 1979. Hydrophyllaceae. Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 64(1): 160-161.
• Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. (F CalifJep)

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Notes

Contributors:

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 27, 2008)

Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 02, 2008:

• Berkeley Natural History Museums, University and Jepson Herbaria DiGIR provider
• USDA PLANTS, USDA PLANTS Database

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 31366
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13745629
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:432092-1
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: PDHYD04040
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: Q0QR
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ERCA7
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 37934

Footnotes:

1. Ruizheng Fang & Constance Lincoln "Hydrophyllaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 16 Page 328. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.