Montana Natural Heritage Program 29 



Element Occurrence Record: Aquileqia brevistyla 



Occurrence number: 004 



Global rank: G5 Forest Service status: SENSITIVE 

 State rank: SI Federal Status: 



Survey site name: BURRIS TRAIL 



EO rank: B 

 EO rank comments: SMALL POPULATION, BUT GOOD REMOTE 

 LOCATION. 



County: JUDITH BASIN 



USGS quadrangle: ETTIEN SPRING 



Township: 012N Range: OlOE Section: 27 Precision: S 

 Township-range comments: SW4NW4 



Survey date: 1991-07-02 Elevation: 6020 

 First observation: 1990 Slope/aspect: 8-15% / NORTHWEST 



Last observation: 1991-07-02 Size (acres) : 1 



Location: 



CA. 18 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEIHART; CA. 0.5 MILE SOUTH OF BURRIS CABIN 

 H ON FS TRAIL ^433. 



Element occurrence data: 



1991: CA. 100 PLANTS IN FULL BLOOM ON 2 JULY (WET, COLD MAY AND JUNE). 

 1990: A FEW PLANTS, BLOOM NEARLY FINISHED 4 JULY. 



General site description: 



ALONG TRAIL; ALL FORESTED, CA. 50% CANOPY CLOSURE. ASSOCIATED SPECIES: 

 PINUS CONTORTA, ABIES LASIOCARPA, PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII, THALICTRUM 

 OCCIDENTALE, CALAMAGROSTIS RUBESCENS , ASTER CONSPICUUS , CYPRIPEDIUM 

 MONTANUM, LINNAEA BOREALIS, GALIUM BOREALE , ANTENNARIA RACEMOSA, VIOLA 

 CANADENSIS, AND EXTENSIVE MOSS COVER. 



Land owner/manager: 



LEWIS & CLARK NATIONAL FOREST, JUDITH RANGER DISTRICT 



Comments: 



POPULATION COVERS SMALL AREA FROM TRAIL WEST TO CREEK. VOUCHER - 

 FIELD, D. (070490-2), 1990. 



Information source: 



ROE, LISA S. MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM, 1515 EAST 6TH AVE., 

 HELENA, MT 59620. (444). 1991. MONT. 



