40 



c. Washington: Sites (003) and (004) are old 

 records that have not been revisited; 

 their current status is not known (p. 39) . 



4. Locations not yet investigated believed likely 

 to support additional natural populations. A 



majority of the appropriate habitat in Montana 

 has been surveyed for this species. However, a 

 study of population sizes (see Appendix A, p. 

 68, (Lesica, 1988) and the 1988 surveys have 

 revealed much-reduced plant numbers for several 

 known populations, and no plants apparent at 

 some of the small subpopulations. This trend 

 may be due to natural fluctuations in 

 populations of this plant, and/or to the 

 current drought conditions. It is possible 

 that sites were not found during 1988 owing to 

 these conditions. 



5. Reports having aunbiguous or incomplete locality 

 information: See Table 6, pp. 41-42, for 

 detailed occurrence records on the following 

 sites. 



a. Montana: The Niarada (007) site has never 

 been relocated. The specimen has been 

 verified but the site description on the 

 label does not describe a habitat where S. 

 spaldinqii is usually found in Montana. 

 This label is believed to be incorrect, 

 and the site may actually be one of the 

 known populations in the vicinity of 

 Niarada. 



b. Oregon: Collections were first made at 

 the Wallowa Lake site (001) in 1898 by 

 Cusick. In 1980, Bonnie Heidel recorded 

 the presence of this species and took 

 photographs. No collection was made at 

 the time (Bonnie Heidel, pers. comm.). 

 Subsequently, this area was searched but 

 the population was not relocated (Jimmy 

 Kagan, pers. comm.). 



It is also possible that this species is 

 hybridizing in this area, as collections 

 reveal certain morphological disparities 

 with descriptions in the literature (Jimmy 

 Kagan, pers. comm.). The status of this 

 population is currently in question. 



