D. GEOGRAPHIC?^ DISTRIBUTION 



1. RANGE: Distribution of sword townsendia is restricted to Madison 

 Group calcareous outcrops in the foothills and outliers of the 

 Northern Rocky Mountains, as found in three Montana counties 

 (Beaverhead, Broadwater and Carbon) , and six Wyoming counties 

 (Bighorn, Fremont, Hotsprings, Natrona, Park, and Sweetwater) . 



Discovery of sword townsendia in the Limestone Hills of 

 Broadwater County, MT in 1985 by Peter Lesica represented a major 

 northern range extension and new county record (Lesica et al. 

 1986) . 



2. CURRENT SITES: 



The Montana range site data in the Biological Conservation 

 Database (BCD) is incomplete at present because 26 of the 28 

 records where it has been documented in the Pryor Mountains have 

 not been processed. In addition to Pryor Mountains records, it 

 has a discontinuous distribution which includes the Big Horn 

 Recreation Area, in the foothills of the Beartooth Plateau, the 

 foothills of the Henneberry Ridge south of Bannack in 

 southwestern Montana, and the Limestone Hills. The eight records 

 in the BCD at present are summarized below and printed out in the 

 Section V. at the end of this report. 



PARTIAL LIST OF TOWNSENDIA SPATHULATA EORS IN MONTANA* 



* Incomplete for Pryor Mountains 



3. HISTORICAL SITES: None. 



4. UNVERIFIED/UNDOCUMENTED REPORTS: None, 



