CNDDB News Blog

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)

The "Endangered, Threatened, and Rare Plants List (PDF)" and "Endangered and Threatened Animals List (PDF)" have both been updated. No changes to federal Endangered Species Act listing status have occurred since the previous updates, but the California Endangered Species Act (CESA) listing status for several taxa has changed as follows:

• Coast yellow leptosiphon (Leptosiphon croceus): Endangered (Effective date of regulation: April 1, 2019)
• Lassics lupine (Lupinus constancei): Endangered (Effective date of regulation: April 1, 2019)
• Humboldt marten (Martes caurina humboldtensis): Endangered (Effective date of regulation: March 18, 2019)
• Tricolored blackbird (Agelaius tricolor): Threatened (Effective date of regulation: March 18, 2019)
• Northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina): Threatened (Effective date of regulation: March 18, 2019)
• Fisher (Pekania pennanti), Southern Sierra Nevada ESU: Threatened (Effective date of regulation: March 18, 2019)
• Upper Klamath-Trinity River Spring Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha): declared a candidate species (February 2019)

Links to the T&E lists can be found on the CNDDB Plants and Animals web page. More information about state listing can be found at the California Fish and Game Commission CESA website.

Number of Element Occurrences in Current Distribution: 92,720
Number of New Element Occurrences Added Since Last Distribution: 360
Number of Source Documents Added: 1,505

What we've been working on:

Botany

• Amsinckia lunaris (bent-flowered fiddleneck)
• Astragalus rattanii var. jepsonianus (Jepson’s milk-vetch)
• Balsamorhiza macrolepis (big-scale balsamroot)
• Calystegia collina ssp. tridactylosa (three-fingered morning-glory)
• Castilleja rubicundula var. rubicundula (pink creamsacs)
• Centromadia parryi ssp. congdonii (Congdon's tarplant)
• Ceanothus roderickii (Pine Hill ceanothus)
• Cuscuta jepsonii (Jepson’s dodder)
• Dithyrea maritima (beach spectaclepod)
• Extriplex joaquinana (San Joaquin spearscale)
• Fritillaria biflora var. ineziana (Hillsborough chocolate lily)
• Gilia capitata ssp. pacifica (Pacific gilia)
• Harmonia hallii (Hall's harmonia)
• Hesperolinon drymarioides (drymaria-like western flax)
• Lewisia cotyledon var. howellii (Howell’s lewisia)
• Monolopia gracilens (woodland woollythreads)
• Montia howellii (Howell's montia)
• Navarretia nigelliformis ssp. radians (shining navarretia)
• Sanicula saxatilis (rock sanicle)
• Sidalcea hickmanii ssp. parishii (Parish's checkerbloom)

Zoology

• Athene cunicularia (burrowing owl)
• Callophrys mossii marinensis (Marin elfin butterfly)
• Entosphenus lethophagus (Pit-Klamath brook lamprey)
• Entosphenus similis (Klamath River lamprey)
• Euphydryas editha quino (quino checkerspot butterfly)
• Rana boylii (foothill yellow-legged frog)
• Rana cascadae (Cascades frog)
• Spea hammondii (western spadefoot)
• Taxidea taxus (American badger)