Eriogonum truncatum (Torr.) A. Gray
Mount Diablo buckwheat, Mt Diablo buckwheat, Contra Costa eriogonum
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1936
Rediscovered in: 2005
Was listed as Extinct by (WCMC, 1992:221).
Distribution & Habitat
Mount Diablo, Contra Costa County, California (northern), USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Burkholder, Mike. (9 September, 2016). Critically Endangered Wildflower Discovered at Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. East County Today, available from: http://eastcountytoday.net/critically-endangered-wildflower-discovered-at-black-diamond-mines-regional-preserve/
CPC. (1990). Centre for plant conservation data for North American plants database. CPC, Centre for plant conservation.
Humphreys, Aelys M., Govaerts, Rafaël, Ficinski, Sarah Z., Lughadha, Eimear Nic and Vorontsova, Maria S. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0906-2 [Supplementary Dataset 1]
Smith, James Payne, Jr., and Berg, Ken. (1988). Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. Special Publication No. 1 (4th edition). California Native Plant Society. Sacramento. xviii + 170 pp.
Smith, James Payne, Jnr. (ed.) and York, Richard (DEM). (1984). Inventory of rare and endangered vascular plants of California. Special Publication No. 1 (3rd edition). Berkeley, California: California Native Plant Society. xviii + 174 pp.
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre). (1992). Global Biodiversity: Status of the Earth's living resources. London: Chapman & Hall. xx + 594 pp.
http://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-taxon=Eriogonum+truncatum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriogonum_truncatum
https://baynature.org/article/ivory-billed-woodpecker-rare-wildflowers-now-unlikely-symbol-success-era-extinction/
https://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/701