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Vta's Bart Silicon Valley— Phase Ii Extension Project VTA’S BART SILICON VALLEY— PHASE II EXTENSION PROJECT SPECIAL-STATUS SPECIES LISTS P REPARED FOR : Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Transit Administration P R E P A R E D B Y : ICF 75 E Santa Clara Street, Suite 300 San Jose, CA 95113 November 2016 ICF 2016. VTA’s BART Silicon Valley—Phase II Extension Project Special- Status Species Lists. November. San Jose, CA. Prepared for the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority, San Jose, CA, and the Federal Transit Administration, Washington, D.C. Special-Status Plants with Potential to Occur in the Project Footprint Page 1 of 2 Status: Federal/ Scientific and Common State/ Blooming Potential to Occur in BART Name CNPS Geographic Distribution Habitat Requirements Period Extension Footprint Balsamorhiza macrolepis –/–/1B.2 Scattered occurrences in the Chaparral, cismontane woodland, Mar–June None; BART Extension footprint is Big-scale balsamroot Coast Ranges and Sierra valley and foothill grassland, 295 below species elevation range. Nevada foothills. to 5,100 feet above mean sea level (MSL) California macrophylla –/–/1B.1 Alameda, Butte, Contra Costa, Cismontane woodland, valley and Mar–May None; no suitable habitat within the Round-leaved filaree Colusa, Fresno, Glenn, Kings , foothill grassland, 50 to 3,940 BART Extension footprint. There are Kern, Lake, Lassen, Los feet above MSL no CNDDB documented occurrences Angeles, Merced, Monterey, within 2 miles of the BART Napa, Riverside, Santa Extension footprint. Barbara, San Benito, Santa Clara, San Diego, San Joaquin, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Solano, Sonoma, Stanislaus , Tehama, Tulare, Ventura, and Yolo counties and Santa Cruz Island. Centromadia parryi ssp. –/–/1B.1 East San Francisco Bay Area, Annual grassland, on lower Jun–Nov None; no suitable habitat within the congdonii Salinas Valley, Los Osos Valley slopes, flats, and swales, BART Extension footprint. There is Congdon's tarplant sometimes on alkaline or saline one CNDDB documented soils, below 700 feet above MSL occurrences within 2 miles of the BART Extension footprint. Presence of this occurrence is extirpated. Chorizanthe robusta var. E/–/1B.1 Alameda, Monterey, Marin, Chaparral, cismontane woodland, Apr–Sep None; no suitable habitat within the robusta Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San coastal dunes, coastal scrub, 10 BART Extension footprint and Robust spineflower Francisco, and San Mateo to 980 feet above MSL considered extirpated in Santa Clara counties County. There is one CNDDB occurrence documented less than a mile from the area of potential effects, however the species was last seen in 1882 at this location and the area has been highly developed and urbanized. Cirsium fontinale var. –/–/1B.2 Alameda, Santa Clara, and Chaparral, cismontane woodland, Apr–Oct None; BART Extension footprint is campylon Stanislaus counties. valley and foothill grassland, 330 below species elevation range. Mt. Hamilton fountain to ,2920 feet above MSL thistle Special-Status Plants with Potential to Occur in the Project Footprint Page 2 of 4 Status: Federal/ Scientific and Common State/ Blooming Potential to Occur in BART Name CNPS Geographic Distribution Habitat Requirements Period Extension Footprint Collinsia multicolor –/–/1B.2 Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Northern coastal scrub and March–May None; no suitable habitat within the San Francisco collinsia Francisco, and San Mateo closed-cone pine forest, 100 to BART Extension footprint. There are Counties. 820 feet above MSL no CNDDB documented occurrences within 2 miles of the BART Extension footprint. Dudleya abramsii ssp. E/–/1B.1 Santa Clara County Cismontane woodland, valley and Apr–Oct None; BART Extension footprint is setchellii foothill grassland, serpentinite, below species elevation range. Santa Clara Valley dudleya rocky, 195 to 1,490 feet above MSL Fritillaria liliacea –/–/1B.2 Alameda, Contra Costa, Coastal prairie, valley grassland, Feb–Apr None; no suitable habitat within the Fragrant fritillary Monterey, Marin, Santa Clara, northern coastal scrub, and BART Extension footprint. There are San Mateo, San Francisco, San wetland-riparian, 10 to 1,345 feet no CNDDB documented occurrences Benito, Solano, and Sonoma. above MSL within 2 miles of the BART Extension footprint. Hoita strobilina –/–/1B Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Chaparral, cismontane woodland, May–July None; no suitable habitat within the BART Extension footprint. There are Loma Prieta hoita Clara, and Santa Cruz counties. riparian woodland, usually serpentinite, mesic, from 100 to no CNDDB documented occurrences 2,800 feet above MSL within 2 miles of the BART Extension footprint. Lasthenia conjugens E/–/1B.1 Alameda, Contra Costa, Cismontane woodland, playas, Mar–June None; no suitable habitat within the BART Extension footprint. There are Contra Costa goldfields Mendocino, Monterey, Marin, valley and foothill grassland, vernal Napa Santa Barbara, Santa pools/mesic, from 0 to 1,540 feet no CNDDB documented occurrences Clara, Solano, and Sonoma above MSL within 2 miles of the BART Extension footprint. counties Malacothamnus arcuatus –/–/1B.2 Santa Cruz, San Mateo, and Chaparral, cismontane woodland, April–Sep None; no suitable habitat within the Arcuate bush mallow Santa Clara. from 50 to 1,165 above MSL BART Extension footprint. There is one CNDDB documented occurrence ~0.5-mile west of the BART Extension footprint that was last observed in1961 and is considered possibly extirpated. Special-Status Plants with Potential to Occur in the Project Footprint Page 3 of 4 Status: Federal/ Scientific and Common State/ Blooming Potential to Occur in BART Name CNPS Geographic Distribution Habitat Requirements Period Extension Footprint Malacothamnus hallii –/–/1B.2 Contra Costa, Lake, Mendocino, Chaparral, coast scrub, from 30 to May–Sep None; there is no suitable habitat within the BART Extension Hall’s bush mallow Merced, Santa Clara, San Mateo, 2,500 feet above MSL and Stanislaus counties footprint. There is one CNDDB occurrence less than a mile from the BART Extension footprint in between the airport and Guadalupe River that was last observed in 1973. The area was surveyed in 1993 with negative results. Plagiobothrys glaber –/–/1A Coastal valleys from Marin to Alkaline meadows, coastal salt Mar–May None; there is no suitable habitat Hairless popcorn-flower San Benito Counties marsh and swamps at 50-590 within the BART Extension feet above MSL footprint. There are two CNDDB occurrences less than two miles from the BART Extension footprint, south of the intersection of Highways 280 and 101 that was last seen in 1955 and is listed as a possible misidentification, and ~0.5- mile west of the BART Extension footprint in Santa Clara that was last seen in 1892. Senecio aphanactis –/–/2B.2 Scattered locations in central Chaparral, cismontane woodland, Jan–Apr None; no suitable habitat within the Chaparral ragwort western and southwestern coastal scrub, sometimes BART Extension footprint. There are California, from Alameda alkaline, 50 to 2,620 feet above no CNDDB documented occurrences County to San Diego County MSL within 2 miles of the BART Extension footprint. Streptanthus albidus ssp. E/–/1B.1 Santa Clara County Valley and foothill grasslands, Apr–June None; BART Extension footprint is albidus serpentinite, from 150 to 2,620 below species elevation range. Metcalf Canyon jewelflower feet above MSL Trifolium hydrophilum (T. –/–/1B.2 Sacramento Valley, central Salt marsh, mesic alkaline areas Apr–Jun None; there is no suitable habitat depauperatum var. western California in grasslands, vernal pools, 0 to within the BART Extension hydrophilum) 980 feet above MSL footprint. There is one CNDDB Saline clover occurrence less than a mile from the BART Extension footprint from 1903 located in a currently developed area in downtown San Jose. Special-Status Plants with Potential to Occur in the Project Footprint Page 4 of 4 Status Explanations Federal E = listed as endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act T = listed as threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act – = no listing State E = listed as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act T = listed as threatened under the California Endangered Species Act R = listed as rare under the California Native Plant Protection Act. This category is no longer used for newly listed plants, but some plants previously listed as rare retain this designation – = no listing. California Native Plant Society 1A = List 1A species: plants presumed extinct in California and elsewhere 1B = List 1B species: rare, threatened, or endangered in California and elsewhere 2 = List 2 species: rare, threatened, or endangered in California but more common elsewhere 3 = List 3 species: plants about which more information is needed to determine their status 4 = List 4 species: plants of limited distribution 0.1 = seriously endangered in California 0.2 = fairly endangered in California 0.3 = not very endangered in California b Likelihood of Occurrence High: Known occurrence of plant within 2 miles of the project vicinity from CNDDB or other documents, or presence of suitable habitat conditions and suitable microhabitat conditions Moderate: Known occurrence of plant within 2 miles of the project vicinity from CNDDB or other documents; suitable habitat is present but suitable microhabitat conditions are not Low: Plant not known to occur within 2 miles of the project vicinity from CNDDB or other documents, or habitat conditions are of poor quality, or species presumed extirpated from
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