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Amsinckia grandiflora
Also called Vascular Plants, Tracheophytes
Amsinckia grandiflora is a species of fiddleneck known by the common name large-flowered fiddleneck. This is a wildflower endemic to California and considered an endangered species on the state and national level. Amsinckia grandiflora is one of four 1248 rare heterostylous species within the genus Amsinckia that have highly restricted distributions from which the more weedy homostylous congeners are thought to have evolved.
The last remaining native populations are on the grasslands near Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Alameda County, California. Other populations have been established in nearby protected areas. The plant is endangered due to a number of factors, including invasive plants, grazing, and development of the valuable land. In the California grasslands, fire is commonly used to control the exotic species, however it negatively affects the native species that live there like Amsinckia grandiflora. Due to the use of fire, the population of the organism is decreasing.
Hairy Fiddleneck · Malheur Valley fiddleneck · Douglas' fiddleneck · Eastwood's fiddleneck · Bentflower fiddleneck · Tarweed fiddleneck · Amsinckia marginata · Menzies' fiddleneck · Woolly breeches · Bristly fiddleneck · Green fiddleneck · Fiddleneck
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Amsinckia grandiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
