San Diego Management & Monitoring ProgramThe Otay Mesa Rare Plants Project will improve the conservation status of several of San Diego County's rarest plants on important conserved lands in Otay Mesa. The Project includes seed bulking for two high-priority Management Strategic Plan (MSP) plant species and direct restoration of five MSP plants with seeding, planting, and maintenance. Seeding, planting, and maintenance for the MSP plants will be conducted as part of two separate habitat restoration projects, one to restore vernal pools and maritime succulent scrub and another to restore maritime succulent scrub and native grasslands.
Project type: General Management
Target species: California orcutt grass, Orcutt's bird's-beak, Orcutt's brodiaea, Otay mesa mint, San Diego thorn-mint
Target vegetation: grassland, vernal pools and alkali playa
Main implementing entity: The Chaparral Lands Conservancy
Point of contact: Dave Hogan
Project Page manager: Sarah McCutcheon
SDMMP lead: Sarah McCutcheon
Study lead: Dave Hogan