Calflora: Hesperocyparis forbesii

Hesperocyparis forbesii (Jeps.) Bartel

Tecate cypress

Hesperocyparis forbesii, a gymnosperm, is a tree that is native to California.

It is included in the CNPS Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants on list 1B.1 (rare, threatened, or endangered in CA and elsewhere). 7th Edition / 8th Edition

Elevation:	between 837 and 4921 feet
Family:	CUPRESSACEAE
Related:	See a list of other species in the genus Hesperocyparis found in California.

Name Status:

Accepted by TJM2 + PLANTS

Other Names:

PLANTS:	Cupressus guadalupensis ssp. forbesii
PLANTS:	Neocupressus guadalupensis var. forbesii
TJM2 + PLANTS:	Callitropsis forbesii
TJM2 + PLANTS:	Cupressus forbesii
TJM2 + PLANTS:	Cupressus guadalupensis var. forbesii

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Distribution by County:

See a detailed Distribution Grid of this plant in California.

A shaded county indicates that there are ocurrence records of this plant within the county.

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	There are specimen records from this county in an herbarium.
	There are documented records, vouchered or confirmed by an expert.
	There are reported records.
	There are reported records available indirectly (eg. in botanical literature).

Records by County, with approximate record counts in the form: TOTAL / CCH. Click county name to view records.

Los Angeles: 11 / 8 CCH Orange: 58 / 55 CCH Riverside: 9 / 8 CCH Sacramento: 1 / 1 CCH Santa Barbara: 1 / 1 CCH San Diego: 157 / 148 CCH San Luis Obispo: 2 / 2 CCH

CCH: records provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria.

Information about Hesperocyparis forbesii from other sources:

Photos on Picasa / Flickr / Google Images
website references on Google
Nursery availability and horticultural info (what grows with this plant?) on CNPLX
CNPS Inventory of rare and endangered plants
2012 Jepson Manual Treament from the Jepson Herbarium,
University of California, Berkeley
Search efloras.org (Flora of North America)