Legenere limosa

Legenere limosa

Taxobox
name = "Legenere limosa"


image_width = 220px
image_caption = "Campanula cespitosa"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Asterales
familia = Campanulaceae
familia_authority = Juss.
genus = "Legenere"
species = "L. limosa"
binomial = "Legenere limosa"
binomial_authority = McVaugh

Legenere limosa is an annual wildflower of the bellflower family endemic to limited portions of Northern California. This species is the sole member of its genus. The species common name is False Venus' looking glass. Blooming in May and June, it occurs below elevations of 610 meters in vernal pools and certain other moist habitats. Principal colonies are in Solano County, Sacramento County, Lake County, Napa County, Sonoma County, Tehama County and Yuba County. [ [http://www.fws.gov/pacific/ecoservices/endangered/recovery/vernal_pool/pdf/Fig%20II-36%20Map%20legenere.pdf County level distribution of "L. limosa"] ] According to the California Native Plant Society "L. limosa" is classified on List 1B: Rare, threatened, or endangered; and 0.1: Seriously endangered. Main threats to the species are grazing and human overpopulation. Stems are reclining and of length ten to thirty centimeters, but the lateral slender branches are rigid. An alternate common name for this organism is Greene's Legenere, after E.L. Greene who first described this plant in 1890; the genus name "Legenere" is derived as an anagram of E.L. Greene. The species name "limosa" derives from the Latin words "limus" (meaning "mud") and "sella" {meaning "seat): the plant that is seated in mud.

ee also

*Wetland

References

External links

* [http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=LEGEN U.S. Department of Agriculture plant profile for "Legenere limosa"]


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