CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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Fremontodendron mexicanum
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Fremontodendron mexicanum is Not Sponsored |
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custodian for this plant in the CPC National Collection of Endangered
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Fremontodendron mexicanum is a tree like shrub with bright orange flowers that bloom between March and August. The showy plant is often used as an ornamental shrub in gardens. Currently, fewer than 100 individuals are known from sites in two areas, southern San Diego County and Estado de Baja California, Mexico (USFWS 1998). Habitat loss and fragmentation are historical threats; remaining populations are now susceptible to inbreeding depression and alteration of fire regimes. Although Fremontodendron mexicanum is adapted to natural fire cycles, changes in fire frequency or timing may be detrimental to this specie's existence (USFWS 1998).
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References |
Munz, P.A. 1974. A flora of southern California. Berkeley: Univ. California Press. 1086p. |
Reiser, C.H. 1994. Rare Plants of San Diego County. Imperial Beach, CA: Aquafir Press. |
Shreve, F.; Wiggins, I.L. 1964. Vegetation and flora of the Sonoran Desert. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press. 1740p. |
Smith, J.P.; Berg, K. 1988. California native plant society's inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. Sacramento: California Native Plant Society. 168p. |
Wiggins, I.L. 1980. Flora of Baja California. Stanford, California: Stanford Univ. Press. 1025p. |
Kartesz, J.T. 1999. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the U.S., Canada, and Greenland. In: Kartesz, J.T.; Meacham, C.A., editors. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden. Chapel Hill, NC. |
James C. Hickman, Editor. 1993 The Jepson manual: Higher plants of California. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1400p. |
CDFG. (2002). California's Plants and Animals, Threatened and Endangered Plants. List and Species Accounts. California Department of Fish and Game, Habitat Conservation Planning Branch. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/hcpb/species/t_e_spp/teplant/teplanta.shtml. Accessed: 2002. |
Kelman, W.M. 1991. A Revision of Fremontodendron (Sterculiaceae). Systematic Botany. 16, 1: 3-20. |
USFWS. 1995. Proposed endangered and threatened status for four chaparral plants from southwestern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico. Federal Register. 60, 190: 51443-51452. |
USFWS. 1998. Endangered or threatened status for three plants from the chaparral and scrub of southwestern California. Federal Register. 63, 197: 54956-54971. |
Little, E.L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees (native and naturalized): Agriculture Handbook No. 541. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Forest Service. p.375. |
Pearson, D.C. 1989. Endangered species alert program manual: Species accounts and procedures. Southern California Edison Environmental Affairs Division. |
Sanguamphai. 1989. 1988 Annual Report on the Status of California's State Listed Threatened and Endangered Plants and Animals. State of California, Department of Fish and Game. |
Stephenson, John R.; Calcarone, Gena M. 1999. Southern California Mountains and Foothills Assessment: Habitat and Species Conservation Issues. Chapter 5 - Potentially Vulnerable Species: Plants. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. p.402. General Technical report PSW-GTR-172. |
| This profile was updated on 3/4/2010 |