Yellow montane violet (Viola praemorsa) COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 10

Existing Protection or Other Status Designations

The Nature Conservancy of the US has globally ranked yellow montane violet (ssp. praemorsa) as “G5T3T5” (globally secure at the species level, vulnerable to secure at the subspecies level). The California, Oregon and Washington heritage programs rate it as SNR (NatureServe 2006). The SNR (status not ranked) designation indicates that no effort was made to formally rank it, which usually occurs with taxa that appear to be widespread and abundant in at least part of their range within the corresponding state. Yellow montane violet was initially assessed in 1995 as Threatened in Canada and the status was re-examined and confirmed in 2000. It was subsequently listed under schedule 1 of the federal Species at Risk Act (SARA).

The British Columbia Ministry of Environment considers yellow montane violet to be a "Red-listed" (threatened/endangered taxon) in British Columbia (Douglas et al. 2002).  The British Columbia Conservation Data Centre ranks it as "S2" (imperilled) in British Columbia (BC Species and Ecosystems Explorer 2003).

Yellow montane violet is the object of a multi-species recovery strategy along with other Garry oak woodland species (Parks Canada Agency 2006).

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