Helping Our Peninsula's Environment

Imperiled Trees, Flowers and Plants of our Greater Monterey Peninsula

By David Dilworth, HOPE Staff scientist and Executive Director

We share Monterey County with hundreds of animals and plant species. 

Because Monterey County has failed to adequately protect them we have caused the imperilment of some  19 trees and plants and forty nine (49) animal species to the point of needing official protection by Federal and State laws. 

Fortunately these 68 species have survived the many years-long, anti-animal protection process of fighting for official listing under Federal and State Endangered Species Acts, Fully Protected laws and Special Status species lists. 

There's More 

Yet, these 68 species are merely the officially recognized ones.

Experts know of many more threatened local species (some 33 animal species alone) which do not have any official protection1, and have no doubt there are many other species we will never know of before we cause them to go extinct - gone forever. 

We may eventually clean up our pollution and find new water sources - but when an animal goes extinct - it is gone from our planet, gone our solar system, gone from our galaxy - forever. 

Forever!

Dozens of animals species are crying out for our help. 

Is anyone listening?

Locally, human actions have caused the real physical (as opposed to official) imperilment (and in some cases extirpation) of the following local plant species.

To see photographs and maps of ranges of many of these imperiled plants - please visit www.1hope.org/plants.htm

1. Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata)
2. Gowen Cypress
3. Monterey Cypress
4. Santa Cruz Cypress
5. Redwood
6. Santa Lucia Fir
7. Knobcone Pine
8. Bishop Pine

1. Hickman's Potentilla or Cinquefoil (Potentilla Hickmanii)
2. Yadon's Rein Orchid (Piperia yadonii)
3. Monterey Clover (Trifolium trichocalyx)
4. Pacific Grove Clover (Trifolium polyodon)
5. Coastal Dunes Milk Vetch (Astragalus tener var Titi)
6. Seaside Bird's Beak (Cordylanthus rigidus var. littoralis)
7. Tidestrom's Lupine (Lupinus tidestromii var. tidestromii)
8. Santa Cruz Wallflower (Erysimum teretifolium)
9. Monterey Bay (or Sand) Gilia (Astralagus tener var. titi)
10. Contra Costa Goldfields
11. Monterey Spineflower (Chorizanthe Pungens var Pungens)
12. Yadon's Wallflower (Erysimum Menziesii ssp Yadonii)
13. Beach Layia (Layia Carnosa)
14. Santa Lucia Mint (Pogogyne Clareana)
15. Robust Spineflower
16. Menzie's Wallflower
17. Hickman's Onion (Allium hickmanii)

1. "More than 700 threatened [animal] species remain completely unprotected." Conservation International, September 11, 2003 (223 bird, 140 mammal and 346 amphibian species) 

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This Page Last Updated July 19, 2004

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