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Number of Element Occurrences in Current Distribution: 93,544
Number of New Element Occurrences Added Since Last Distribution: 314
Number of Element Occurrences Updated Since Last Distribution: 208
Number of Source Documents Added: 1,111

Taxa we've been working on:

Botany

• Astragalus umbraticus (Bald Mountain milk-vetch)
• Atriplex coronata var. vallicola (Lost Hills crownscale)
• Botrypus virginianus (rattlesnake fern)
• Cardamine angulata (seaside bittercress)
• Ceanothus impressus var. impressus (Santa Barbara ceanothus)
• Ceanothus impressus var. nipomensis (Nipomo Mesa ceanothus)
• Delphinium luteum (golden larkspur)
• Eryngium aristulatum var. parishii (San Diego button-celery)
• Leptosiphon jepsonii (Jepson’s leptosiphon) Navarretia miwukensis (Mi-Wuk navarretia)
• Packera bolanderi var. bolanderi (seacoast ragwort)
• Piperia candida (white-flowered rein orchid)
• Senecio aphanactis (chaparral ragwort)

Zoology

• Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum (Santa Cruz long toed salamander)
• Catostomus platyrhynchus (mountain sucker)
• Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus (Bay Area snowy plover)
• Emys marmorata (Mojave River pond turtles)
• Euphydryas editha quino (quino checkerspot butterfly)
• Gambelia sila (blunt-nosed leopard lizard)
• Rana boylii (foothill yellow-legged frog)
• Rana cascadae (Cascades frog)

Number of Element Occurrences in Current Distribution: 93,015
Number of New Element Occurrences Added Since Last Distribution: 208
Number of Element Occurrences Updated Since Last Distribution: 315
Number of Source Documents Added: 1,509

Taxa we've been working on:

Botany

• Agave shawii var. shawii (Shaw's agave)
• Astragalus claranus (Clara Hunt’s milk-vetch)
• Botrychium minganense (Mingan moonwort)
• Calochortus palmeri var. munzii (San Jacinto mariposa-lily)
• Cirsium scariosum var. loncholepis (La Graciosa thistle)
• Croton wigginsii (Wiggins' croton)
• Howellia aquatilis (water howellia)
• Iliamna latibracteata (California globe mallow)
• Linanthus orcuttii (Orcutt’s linanthus)
• Mentzelia tridentata (creamy blazing star)
• Monardella undulata ssp. crispa (crisp monardella)
• Oreostemma elatum (tall alpine-aster)
• Penstemon filiformis (thread-leaved beardtongue)
• Penstemon personatus (closed-throated beardtongue)
• Puccinellia simplex (California alkali grass)
• Scutellaria bolanderi ssp. austromontana (southern mountain skullcap)
• Stellaria longifolia (long-leaved starwort)
• Utricularia intermedia (flat-leaved bladderwort)

Zoology

• Catostomus platyrhynchus (mountain sucker)
• Gambelia sila (blunt-nosed leopard lizard)
• Oncorhynchus mykiss gilberti (Kern River rainbow trout)
• Ovis canadensis (bighorn sheep)
• Rana boylii (foothill yellow-legged frog)
• Rana cascadae (Cascades frog)
• Spea hammondii (western spadefoot)

Number of Element Occurrences in Current Distribution: 93,015
Number of New Element Occurrences Added Since Last Distribution: 208
Number of Element Occurrences Updated Since Last Distribution: 315
Number of Source Documents Added: 1,509

What we've been working on:

Botany

• Allium jepsonii (Jepson’s onion)
• Allium tuolumnense (Rawhide Hill onion)
• Arctostaphylos myrtifolia (Ione manzanita)
• Astragalus claranus (Clara Hunt’s milk-vetch)
• Ceanothus foliosus var. viejasensis (Viejas Mountain ceanothus)
• Chorizanthe howellii (Howell's spineflower)
• Collomia rawsoniana (Rawson’s flaming trumpet)
• Crocanthemum greenei (island rush-rose)
• Epilobium nivium (Snow Mountain willowherb)
• Fritillaria pluriflora (adobe-lily)
• Grusonia pulchella (beautiful cholla)
• Heterotheca sessiliflora ssp. sessiliflora (beach goldenaster)
• Ivesia campestris (field ivesia)
• Orcuttia tenuis (slender Orcutt grass)
• Trifolium buckwestiorum (Santa Cruz clover)
• Verbena californica (Red Hills vervain)

Zoology

• Entosphenus lethophagus (Pit-Klamath brook lamprey)
• Euphydryas editha quino (quino checkerspot butterfly)
• Oncorhynchus mykiss gilberti (Kern River rainbow trout)
• Rana boylii (foothill yellow-legged frog)
• Rana cascadae (Cascades frog)
• Spea hammondii (western spadefoot)