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cordylanthus maritimus ssp maritimus
12-22-2016

Cordylanthus maritimus ssp. maritimus

Cordylanthus maritimus ssp. maritimus NatureServe Explorer Species Reports — NatureServe Explorer is a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals and ecological communtities of the U.S and canada NatureServe Explorer provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species, but includes common plants and animals too. NatureServe Explorer is a product of NatureServe in collaboration with the Natural Heritage Network.

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FWS Digital Media Library — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Digital Library is a searchable collection of selected images, historical artifacts, audio clips, publications, and video.This plant grows in low clumps and has small, thick, gray-green hairy leaves often tinted with purple. It concentrates and excretes salts, giving its foliage a grainy crust. It erects an inflorescence several centimeters high which has many fuzz-covered white or cream club-shaped flowers with yellow or purplish tips. The fruit is a capsule containing many brown net-textured (reticulate) seeds.Two subspecies of this plant are considered endangered. Cordylanthus maritimus ssp. maritimus is listed as endangered by the State of California and the United States Government. Cordylanthus maritimus ssp. palustris (Point Reyes bird’s beak) is included in the California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants of California

Detailed information
Full Name: Salt Marsh bird's-beak (Cordylanthus maritimus ssp. maritimus)
Where found: Wherever found
Critical Habitat:N/A
Species Group:Flowering Plants
Current listing status
Status Date Listed Lead Region Where Listed
Endangered 10/29/1978 California/Nevada Region (Region 8) Wherever found
  • States/US Territories in which the Salt Marsh bird's-beak, Wherever found is known to or is believed to occur: California
  • US Counties in which the Salt Marsh bird's-beak, Wherever found is known to or is believed to occur: View All
  • USFWS Refuges in which the Salt Marsh bird's-beak, Wherever found is known to occur: San Diego Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Tijuana Slough National Wildlife Refuge
  • Countries in which the the Salt Marsh bird's-beak, Wherever found is known to occur: Mexico
Recovery
No critical habitat rules have been published for the Salt Marsh bird's-beak.
Date
Title
Plan Action Status
Plan Status
08/27/2013 Recovery Plan for Tidal Marsh Ecosystems of Northern and Central California View Implementation Progress Final
12/06/1985 Salt Marsh Bird's-beak (Cordylanthus maritimus subsp. maritimus) Recovery Plan View Implementation Progress Final
Date
Title
Plan Action Status
Plan Status
08/27/2013 Recovery Plan for Tidal Marsh Ecosystems of Northern and Central California View Implementation Progress Final
12/06/1985 Salt Marsh Bird's-beak (Cordylanthus maritimus subsp. maritimus) Recovery Plan View Implementation Progress Final
Date
Citation Page
Title
Document Type
04/01/2013 78 FR 19510 19514 Initiation of 5-Year Reviews of 56 Species in California and Nevada; request for information
  • Notice 5-year Review, Initiation
05/21/2010 75 FR 28636 28642 Initiation of 5-Year Reviews of 34 Species in California and Nevada; Availability of 96 Completed 5-Year Reviews in California and Nevada
  • Notice 5-year Review, Completion
02/10/2010 75 FR 6696 6697 Draft Recovery Plan for Tidal Marsh Ecosystems of Northern and Central California
  • Notice Draft Recovery Plan Availability
02/14/2007 72 FR 7064 7084 Initiation of 5-Year Reviews of 58 Species in California and Nevada; Availability of Completed 5-Year Reviews in California and Nevada
  • Notice 5-year Review, Initiation
Date
Title
08/13/2009 Salt Marsh Bird's-beak 5-Year Review
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