Native to California, Mexico Northwest (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.
Location
United States, California, Ventura (Ojai)
34.518611, -119.277111
Location Remarks
Highway 33, 11 km N of Ojai
Collectors
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Ranunculales
Family
Papaveraceae
Genus
Dendromecon
Specific Epithet
rigida
Authorship
Benth.
What is EDGE?
Evolutionary distinctiveness
Moderate
ED 13.8
Moderately distinct — it has closer living relatives than the most isolated species.
Threat status
IUCN Red List
EDGE score
0.7
Global rank
#66,137 of 335,497
Top 20%
Extinction probability
6%