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Nitrophila mohavensis

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Determination of threatened status with critical habitat for six plants and one insect in Ash Meadows, Nevada and California; and endangered status with critical habitat for one plant in Ash Meadows, Nevada and
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perennial herb growing no more than about 10 centimeters tall. It produces erect branches, often in pairs, covered in fleshy oval-shaped green leaves 3 or 4 millimeters long.
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is a solitary flower or cluster of a few flowers emerging from between the leaves. The flower lacks petals but has pink petallike
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The plant only occurs within and around the remnants of Carson Slough in the Ash Meadows area, including within
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made up of moist and drying, salt-encrusted clay soils surrounded by other
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of the landscape. The plant relies on saturation of its soil by a high
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which is a protected area but is still affected by alterations in the
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Nevada Natural Heritage Program Rare Plant Fact Sheet
581: 242:is a rare species of flowering plant in the family 488:California Native Plant Society Rare Plant Profile 8: 936:Natural history of Inyo County, California 569: 450:NatureServe Explorer Nitrophila mohavensis 72: 50: 31: 20: 896:NatureServe critically imperiled species 225: 946:Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex 437: 921:Flora of the California desert regions 532: 530: 338:, the Amargosa niterwort, is a petite 951:Endangered flora of the United States 931:Natural history of Nye County, Nevada 469: 467: 7: 926:Natural history of the Mojave Desert 483: 481: 416:Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge 377:Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge 538:Amargosa Niterwort Five Year Review 402:in the area and occasional illegal 911:Endemic flora of the United States 14: 842:urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:170116-2 95: 1: 353:which fade white with age. 285:, straddling the border of 967: 299:Death Valley National Park 16:Species of flowering plant 246:known by the common name 206: 199: 92:Scientific classification 90: 70: 48: 39: 30: 23: 391:. Other threats include 304:The plant grows only in 270:Distribution and habitat 554:Jepson Manual Treatment 891:ESA endangered species 446:"NatureServe Explorer" 364:is a federally listed 318:Atriplex confertifolia 234: 613:Nitrophila mohavensis 583:Nitrophila mohavensis 362:Nitrophila mohavensis 336:Nitrophila mohavensis 275:Nitrophila mohavensis 239:Nitrophila mohavensis 231:Nitrophila mohavensis 229: 210:Nitrophila mohavensis 78:Critically Imperiled 25:Nitrophila mohavensis 559:USDA Plants Profile 452:. NatureServe. 2022 372:in a single event. 250:. It is endemic to 42:Conservation status 366:endangered species 324:Cleomella brevipes 248:Amargosa niterwort 235: 192:N. mohavensis 878: 877: 798:Open Tree of Life 575:Taxon identifiers 224: 223: 85: 65: 958: 871: 870: 858: 857: 845: 844: 832: 831: 819: 818: 806: 805: 793: 792: 780: 779: 767: 766: 754: 753: 741: 740: 728: 727: 715: 714: 702: 701: 689: 688: 676: 675: 663: 662: 653: 652: 640: 639: 627: 626: 617: 616: 615: 602: 601: 600: 570: 541: 540:. 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Conservation status
Endangered
ESA
NatureServe
Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Caryophyllales
Amaranthaceae
Nitrophila
Binomial name
Munz

Amaranthaceae
Nye County
Nevada
Inyo County
California
endemic
Amargosa Desert
California
Nevada
Death Valley
Death Valley National Park
alkaline
salt pans

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