TABLE 2. Summary of life history monitoring data for Cirsium 



longistylum at Kings Hill, Little Belt Mountains, Lewis and 

 Clark National Forest, 1990-1991. (Percentages are rounded 

 up or down to the nearest whole number.) 



KINGS HILL (Elevation 7880 ft) 



Plot radius 15 ft (4.6 m) 



Observation Date 



1990/07/30 



1991/08/02 



Total # of plants 



(dead or alive) observed 



Total # plants of 

 current year plants 

 recorded 



Percentage change from the 

 previous year 



New recruits; (as a percent of 

 all plants) 



Density of live (plants/m ) 



a small rosette plants; 

 (percent of small rosettes) 



# medium rosette plants; 

 (percent of medium rosettes) 



# large rosette plants; 

 (percent of large rosettes) 



total # plants at 



rosette stage; (X of plants 



at rosette stage) 



# plants flowering; 

 (percent of plants flowering) 



mean U of heads 

 open or unopened 

 per flowering plant 

 + SD, n 



Total # rosettes 

 observed to be dead 



Total # of rosettes not 

 relocated and presumed dead 



Total # dead and not relocated 

 rosettes; (as a percentage of all 

 live plants present in the 

 previous year) 



Total # of plants 



that had flowered in the 



previous year and are now dead 



Total # of plants not 

 relocated that had flowered the 

 previous year and are presumed dead 



Total number of dead or not relocated 

 (flowering & rosette) plants; (as a 

 percentage of all live plants present 

 in the previous year) 



205 



32 (28X) 



10.5 + 7.7 

 n = 37 



(OX) 



5 

 35 



40 (35X) 



26 



72 (64%) 



