Inbreeding can have severe consequences in natural populations and several plant traits might represent a higher influence on the fitness decline, such as who pollinates the plant. Clarkia breweri is a hawkmoth pollinated species,  therefore it is expected that it doesn't experience much inbreeding under natural conditions but that it will show a strong fitness decline under inbred conditions.

We have established multiple generations of inbreeding to evaluate how increased inbreeding influence on fitness and our intern for this project, will be working with the number of flowers produced and biomass collected from a greenhouse experiment performed during the summer. This project will involve comparing multiple populations of the species over multiple generations of inbreeding.