It is a plant of freshwater and brackish marshes and other estuary habitat. The plant is rare overall, limited in distribution to about 80 populations in a single network of water bodies, but it is locally abundant in some areas.[2] It is a common bayside plant in Suisun Marsh.[3]
It is threatened by numerous environmental factors, however, including erosion, flood control activities such as levee maintenance and dredging, consumption of marshland for development, agriculture, recreation, pollution, and competition with water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes).[2][3]
This is a small perennial herb, superficially grasslike in appearance, growing in small continuous tufts from spreading rhizomes. The thready or hairlike leaves are several centimeters high and green in color. The inflorescence is a minute, threadlike umbel of tiny greenish white to maroon flowers each yielding a spherical fruit about a millimeter wide.
lilaeopsis, masonii, species, flowering, plant, family, apiaceae, known, common, names, mudflat, quillplant, mason, lilaeopsis, endemic, california, where, known, only, from, sacramento, joaquin, river, delta, nearby, shores, francisco, conservation, status, i. Lilaeopsis masonii is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae known by the common names mudflat quillplant and Mason s lilaeopsis It is endemic to California where it is known only from the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta and nearby shores of San Francisco Bay Lilaeopsis masonii Conservation status Imperiled NatureServe 1 Scientific classification Kingdom Plantae Clade Tracheophytes Clade Angiosperms Clade Eudicots Clade Asterids Order Apiales Family Apiaceae Genus Lilaeopsis Species L masonii Binomial name Lilaeopsis masoniiMathias amp Constance It is a plant of freshwater and brackish marshes and other estuary habitat The plant is rare overall limited in distribution to about 80 populations in a single network of water bodies but it is locally abundant in some areas 2 It is a common bayside plant in Suisun Marsh 3 It is threatened by numerous environmental factors however including erosion flood control activities such as levee maintenance and dredging consumption of marshland for development agriculture recreation pollution and competition with water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes 2 3 This is a small perennial herb superficially grasslike in appearance growing in small continuous tufts from spreading rhizomes The thready or hairlike leaves are several centimeters high and green in color The inflorescence is a minute threadlike umbel of tiny greenish white to maroon flowers each yielding a spherical fruit about a millimeter wide References edit NatureServe Explorer 2 0 a b Yolo Conservation Plan Species Account a b California Native Plant Society Rare Plant ProfileExternal links editJepson Manual Treatment USDA Plants Profile Photo gallery nbsp This Apiaceae article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lilaeopsis masonii amp oldid 1089371431, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
