Paired plants were absent from Neihart and Russian Creek, at 

 significantly lower elevations than Kings Hill. It is possible 

 that multiple rosettes found at Kings Hill sites originated with 

 underground frost heaving injury, or that multiple rosettes are 

 normal in the sparser vegetation at Kings Hill compared to the 

 other two sites. 



Regarding the infloresence, infloresence branching pattern varied 

 widely between individuals. Racemose inf loresences with about 

 seven flower heads were frequent. Panicle inf loresences with 

 many axillary branches and over 50 flowering heads, were present 

 at the opposite extreme. Every intermediate condition was also 

 present. The number of flowering heads tallied in 1993 compares 

 directly with previous year's results. Distinction were made 

 between mature flowers and unopened buds; F = Ph, and B = Pb of 

 Schassberger 1991. However, these distinctions were not made by 

 Phillips and Field (1991-92) because their monitoring work was 

 conducted near the end of the growing season when any unopened 

 buds were not expected to mature. 



Written note was also made of grazing or trampling damage and 

 impact to flowering plants; damaged plants were not included in 

 the tallies determining mean number of flowers per infloresence. 



As a followup to previous demographic monitoring, flowering stems 

 were also counted but not mapped within the original 15 ft/37 ft. 

 circular plots to provide direct comparison with data on the 

 flowering plants recorded in previous years. The revised 

 monitoring does not try to replicate previous seedling and 

 rosette counts. 



Photographs taken from respective endpoints are filed in the 

 species' monitoring folder. Within each plot, an ecodata form 

 was completed, also on file. 



Kings Hill #1 MTNHP 



This is the plot established by Schassberger and Achuff in 1990 



(Montana Natural Heritage Program) . 



Location: Meagher County, T.12N R.8E Sec. 2 near the section 

 center at ca. SE1/4SE1/4NW1/4 . Located on southeast side of 

 Kings Hill above head of Petty Creek. From Kings Hill Pass on 

 Hwy 89, ca. 1 mile southeast along Forest Service road #487. 

 Plot center is located ca. 40 m. downslope and south (158 degrees 

 - no declination) of west-facing USFS sign reading "Memorial Hwy, 

 Dry Wolf Rd" posted within a triangular-shaped piece of meadow 

 cut off by roads converging from three directions directly east 

 of (below) the Kings Hill summit. View of the plot center rod 

 from the roadside sign is partially obscured by two clumps of 

 pine (diagrammed in project file) . It is ungrazed. Quad: Kings 

 Hill (4610076) . 



