USDA Forest Service Celebrating Wildflowers
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Critically Imperiled Plant Profile
(Not Listed or Proposed under the Endangered Species Act)

Like most plants in the mustard family, this plant has four-petaled flowers. Photo courtesy Susan Cochrane and CNPS.

The only member of its genus, Jaeger’s caulostramina is restricted to rock crevices in the Inyo Mountains, east of the Sierra Nevada. Photo by Mary DeDecker, courtesy of Inyo National Forest.

Caulostramina jaegeri range map.
Caulostramina jaegeri, Jaeger's caulostramina
Threats
- Mining of limestone is the greatest threat to this species.
- ORV use, hiking and feral goats are other threats.
Conservation Status
National Forest and Grassland Occurrence
More Information
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U.S. Forest Service
Rangeland Management
Botany Program
1400 Independence Ave., SW, Mailstop Code: 1103
Washington DC 20250-1103

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Location: http://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/rareplants/profiles/critically_imperiled/caulostramina_jaegeri/index.shtml
Last modified: Wednesday, 13-Oct-2010 14:35:29 EDT