Critically Imperiled Plant Profile (Not Listed or Proposed under the Endangered Species Act)
Like most plants in the mustard family, this plant has four-petaled flowers. Photo courtesy Susan Cochrane and CNPS.
The only member of its genus, Jaeger’s caulostramina is restricted to rock crevices in the Inyo Mountains, east of the Sierra Nevada. Photo by Mary DeDecker, courtesy of Inyo National Forest.
Caulostramina jaegeri range map.
Caulostramina jaegeri, Jaeger's caulostramina
Threats
- Mining of limestone is the greatest threat to this species.
- ORV use, hiking and feral goats are other threats.