Astragalus endopterus (Barneby) Barneby

Sandbar milkvetch

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Conservation Status

Extinct (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022)

Last record: 1947

This species has been identified as one of the 50 best candidates for de-extinction, ranking 2/50 (Albani Rocchetti et al., 2022).

Distribution

Cameron, Coconino County, Arizona, USA

Biology & Ecology

Hypodigm

Media

References

Albani Rocchetti, G., Carta, A., Mondoni, A. et al. (2022). Selecting the best candidates for resurrecting extinct-in-the-wild plants from herbaria. Nature Plants 8: 1385-1393. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-022-01296-7 [Supplementary Tables S1-S6]

Knapp, Wesley M. et al. (2020). Vascular plant extinction in the continental United States and Canada. Conservation Biology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13621

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.

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