Species and Community Profiles - San Francisco Estuary ...

Table 1.3 (continued) Historic Changes in the Distribution and Abundance of Selected Native Vascular
Plant Species Occurring in Tidal Marshes of the San Francisco Estuary
Taxon Historic References Contemporary Distribution
Eleocharis parvula (Roemer
and Shultes) Link
Festuca rubra L.
Glaux maritima L.
Heliotropium curassavicum L.
Hemizonia pungens (Hook
and Arn.) Torrey and A. Gray
ssp. maritima (E. Greene)
[Centromadia maritima Greene]
Hemizonia parryi E. Greene
ssp. parryi, ssp. congdonii
(Robinson and Greenman) Keck
Hutchinsia procumbens (L.)
Desv.
[Bursa divaricata (O. Ktze) Nutt.]
[Capsella divaricata Walp.]
[Capsella procumbens Fries.]
[Capsella elliptica C.A. Mey.]
[Lepidium procumbens L.]
[Hutchinsia californica,
H. desertorum A. Davids]
[not reported in early floras; Munz
1959 reported only from coastal salt
marshes of San Luis Obispo and
Humboldt Cos.]
[reported only from generalized
habitats in early floras; halophytic
populations not distinguished. Speculative
likely component of historic
sandy salt marsh edges of Central
Bay.]
Behr 1888: “ Salt marshes.”
Greene 1894: “ Frequent both along
the seabord and in subsaline soils in
the interior”
Jepson 1911: “ Marshy shores of …
San Francisco and Suisun bays.”
Howell 1949: [Marin Co.] “ salt
marshes… Burdell…”
Thomas 1961: “… Palo Alto, but expected
elsewhere in salt marshes”
Atwater et al. 1979: [recorded as
present in San Pablo Bay]
Best et al. 1996: [Sonoma Co.] “ Rare,
salt marshes: Petaluma, Davy (1893
UC).”
Howell et al. 1958: “ salt marsh near
Visitacion Valley [southeastern San
Francisco].”
Greene 1894: “ Borders of salt
marshes about San Francisco Bay.”
Cooper 1926: [dominant species of
reconstructed “ willow-composite”
community at salt marsh edges, Palo
Alto vicinity.]
Munz 1959: [ ssp. congdonii] “ Locally
common… s. end of San Francisco
Bay, mostly Alameda Co.” [ssp.
parryi] “ Coastal Salt Marsh… to N. San
Mateo Co…” [not reported from salt
marsh in Jepson 1901, Greene 1894)
Greene 1894: “ Borders of salt
marshes.”
Jepson 1911: Alkaline soil from
Vallejo (acc. Bot. Cal.), Alameda…”
Thomas 1961: Known locally from
saline areas along San Francisco
Bay; Palo Alto and Mayfield.”
26 Baylands Ecosystem Species and Community Profiles
Rare in brackish tidal marshes of San
Pablo and Suisun Bay area. Local in
diked baylands, lower Napa River.
Not currently reported from San Francisco
Bay estuarine tidal marsh edges;
halophytic populations presumed
extirpated. Halophytic populations
occur along edges of maritime salt
marsh and brackish marsh at Rodeo
Lagoon, Limantour Estero, Tomales
Bay (Marin Co).]
Few recent reports known from San
Francisco Bay or San Pablo Bay salt
marshes; reported as infrequent in
Petaluma Marsh; local in tidal marsh
near mouth of Tolay Creek, Sonoma
Co.; occasional to locally frequent in
Suisun Marsh area and Fagan Slough
(Napa River).
No current reports known from San
Francisco Bay. Recently reported
from Suisun Marsh area.
Local, infrequent species along tidal
marsh edge around the San Francisco
Estuary.
No current reports known from San
Francisco Bay Estuary tidal marsh
edges. Rare.
No current reports known from San
Francisco Bay Estuary tidal marsh
edges. Occurs in high marsh ecotone
of central CA coast salt marsh,
and in other alkaline or subsaline
habitats in California floristic province.