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sections 2670.22 and 2670.32 in the 1984 

 Forest Service Manual. Under these 

 guidelines, the Forest Service is to (a) 

 "maintain viable populations of all native 

 species of plants" (2670.22), and (b) "avoid 

 or minimize impacts to species whose 

 viability has been identified as a concern" 

 (2670.32.3) . 



2. STATE: Haplopappus macronema is listed as 



"apparently globally secure (G4), though it may be 

 quite rare in parts of its range", by the Montana 

 Natural Heritage Program (Shelly 1990) . Within 

 Montana, the species is listed as "critically 

 imperiled because of extreme rarity" (SI = 5 or 

 fewer occurrences) . 



DESCRIPTION 



1. GENERAL NONTECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: Discoid 

 goldenweed is a low shrub (up to 16 inches) with a 

 rounded silhouette. Wavy-margined leaves are 

 abundant along the green portions of the short 

 stems. The leaves are lance-shaped, widest above 

 the middle, and up to 1 inch in length. Dense 

 white hairs cover the stems and leaves of this 

 shrub. The tips of the stems bear clusters of one 

 to three flowering heads (clusters of flowers 

 characteristic of members of the Sunflower 

 Family) . Each head contains 10-25, yellow, 

 tubular, disk flowers, 0.6 inch in length. The 

 bracts surrounding the heads of flowers are in two 

 layers, and are nearly equal in length to the disk 

 flowers. The inflorescences are covered with 

 glands sticky to the touch, and a resinous exudate 

 from the plants' foliage gives discoid goldenweed 

 a pleasant fragrance. 



2. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: A subshrub, 1.5-4 dm high, 

 with numerous short branches from near base that 

 spread to form a densely twiggy rounded bush; bark 

 completely masked by the tomentum except old 

 branches, here brown and shreddy; twigs tough, 

 very leafy, covered with a white pannose tomentum, 

 this usually sparse or wanting near heads, the 

 peduncles then glandular-scabrid; leaves oblong or 

 oblanceolate, ascending, entire or margins crisply 

 undulate, either acute or somewhat obtuse and then 

 mucronate, 1-3 cm long, 3-6 mm wide, 1-nerved, an 

 additional pair of faint nerves sometimes present, 

 glandular-scabrid; heads solitary and terminal, or 

 several and subracemose; involucre broadly 



