Victorin’s gentian COSEWIC assessment and status report: chapter 1
Assessment Summary
Assessment Summary – May 2004
Common name : Victorin’s gentian
Scientific name: Gentianopsis procera macouniivar. victorinii
Status : Threatened
Reason for designation : A geographically highly restricted and short-lived annual or biennial that is endemic to the freshwater or slightly brackish shoreline areas of the St. Lawrence River estuary in Quebec. It is present at 28 extant sites but in very small localized habitats where it is at risk from a wide range of impacts. These include habitat disruption by ATVs, shoreline in-filling, mowing of vegetation, picking of flowers and potentially from oil spills.
Occurrence : Quebec
Status history : Designated Special Concern in April 1987. Assessment status re-examined and designated as Threatened in May 2004. Last assessment based on an update status report.