The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has said one of the 14 California species it recently assessed was not as bad off as previously determined.

In an announcement Tuesday, the agency recommended that the San Clemente Island larkspur be “downlisted” from endangered to threatened status under the Endangered Species Act.

It proposed no status changes for the other species, which included the willowy monardella, Delhi Sands flower-loving fly and Palos Verdes blue butterfly.

Most of the species reviews were done by the agency's staff in Carlsbad.– M.L.