Montana Natural Heritage Program 

 Element Occurrence Record 



Scientific Name: SPIRANTHES DILUVIALIS 

 Common Name: UTE LADIES' TRESSES 



Global rank: G2 

 State rank: SI 



Forest Service status; 

 Federal Status: 



LT 



Element occurrence code; 

 Element occurrence type; 



PMORC2B100.006 



Survey site name: 



EO rank: 



EO rank comments: 



ALDER 



CD 



GOOD POPULATION SIZE IN DISTURBED SETTING 



SIMULATING NATURAL CONDITIONS. 



County: MADISON 



USGS quadrangle: ALDER 



Township: Range: Section: 

 006S 004W 



TRS comments : 



Precision: 



Survey date : 



First observation: 



Last observation: 



1997-08-14 Elevation: 5080 - 

 1997-08-14 Slope/aspect: 0-10% / 

 1997-08-14 Size (acres) : 



Location: 



CONTACT THE MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM. 



Element occurrence data: 



CA. 180 PLANTS IN LESS THAN 0. 

 8-14-97. 



2 MILE OF HABITAT. IN FULL FLOWER 



General site description: 



BASE OF DITCH SLOPES IN HIGHWAY RIGHT OF WAY, WITH SEASONALLY 

 SATURATED SOILS IN VALLEY BOTTOMS. ASSOCIATED SPECIES INCLUDE AGROSTIS 

 STOLONIFERA, EQUISETUM LAEVIGATUM, POA PRATENSIS, FESTUCA ELATIOR, AND 

 HABENARIA HYPERBOREA. 



Land owner /manager : 



STATE LAND - UNDESIGNATED 



Comments : 



THE LOCAL SURVEY HAS NOT BEEN EXHAUSTIVE, BUT THERE ARE NO DIRECT 

 CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE OCCUPIED ROAD DITCH AND POTENTIAL NATURAL 

 HABITAT. ROAD DITCH SEGMENTS TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, AND OPPOSITE SIDE OF 

 THE HIGHWAY HAVE BEEN SURVEYED AND RULED OUT. 



Information source; 



Specimens ; 



HEIDEL, BONNIE. [BOTANIST] MONTANA NATURAL 

 HERITAGE PROGRAM, 1515 EAST SIXTH AVENUE, P.O. BOX 

 201800, HELENA, MT 59620-1800. WORK: 406/444-3009. 



