Local Daisy Joins the Endangered List
A plant indigenous to Laguna Beach has been added to the federal endangered species list, one of four plants in Southern California recently added, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced this week.
The big-leaved crown-beard--a yellow-flowered member of the daisy family--is found in “two little pockets within the city limits” of Laguna Beach, according to Patricia Foulk, a Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman.
The plant can be found in only one other area, Baja California, she added.
The big-leaved crown-beard joined the Encinitas baccharis, the Del Mar manzanita and Orcutt’s spineflower on the endangered species list.
Those plants are found in San Diego, Foulk said.
All four plants grow within coastal scrub on private lands in coastal Orange and San Diego counties, according to Fish and Wildlife officials.
They face threats from habitat destruction and fragmentation.
The plants are part of a settlement to a 1992 suit brought by the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund resulting in their eventual placement on the list.
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