touching versus, in B. lunaria , the pinnae 10-12 mm wide, fan- 

 shaped to semicircular and overlapping or nearly so. 



D. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION 



1. RANGE: Botrychium minganense occurs widely in 

 North America from Labrador to British Columbia 

 and Alaska, and south to New York, Michigan, 

 Wisconsin, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, 

 Nevada, Oregon and California (Cody and Britton 

 1989, Lellinger 1985). 



2. CURRENT SITES: Botrychium minganense is currently 

 known from seven locations in Montana. Two are in 

 Glacier National Park in the Logan Pass area 

 (element occurrences 004, 005), one near Mount 

 Aeneas in the Swan Range (001) , two at Swan Lake 

 (002, 003), and two in the Ninemile Creek valley 

 northwest of Missoula (006, 007). The Swan Lake 

 sites are on private land. The Glacier National 

 Park sites are on land managed by the National 

 Park Service, and the other sites are on U.S. 

 Forest Service land. One of the sites in the 

 Ninemile Valley (007 - Little Marion Creek) was 

 newly located during surveys in July 1991. 



3. HISTORICAL SITES: None. 



4. UNVERIFIED/UNDOCUMENTED SITES: None. 



5. AREAS SURVEYED BUT SPECIES NOT LOCATED: Portions 

 of the following areas in Ninemile Valley were 

 searched unsuccessfully for Botrychium minganense 

 in 1991: 



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