Stoloniferous pussytoes (Antennaria flagellaris) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 10

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Existing Protection or Other Status Designations

International status

Antennaria flagellaris is not covered under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the Endangered Species Act (USA) or the IUCN Red Data Book. Globally, A. flagellaris has a rank of G5? indicating that in most of its range the plant is “apparently common, demonstrably secure and essentially ineradicable under present conditions".

National and provincial status

Since the species is restricted to British Columbia, it has a national rank in Canada of N1. Provincially, A. flagellaris has been ranked by the Conservation Data Centre as S1 and appears on the British Columbia Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management red list, the most critical rank (Douglas et al. 2002b). This is the most critical rank that can be applied to species at the provincial level and indicates that the species is "critically imperiled because of extreme rarity (typically five or fewer occurrences or very few remaining individuals) or because of some factor(s) making it especially vulnerable to extirpation or extinction".

There is currently no specific endangered species legislation in place for the protection of vascular plants in British Columbia that have been given this critical rank. The population may be afforded some protection against certain types of property development because it occurs in the Agricultural Land Reserve, where the primary use is agriculture. Intensive uses are not prohibited and could be inconsistent with the habitat requirements of A. flagellaris. As a result, in the absence of active stewardship, populations of rare plants on these private lands are not secure.