ELEMENT OCCURRENCE RECORD 15 



Clavtonia lanceolata var. f lava 



occurrence number: 002 



Global rank: G5T1 Forest Service status: SENSITIVE 

 State rank: SI Federal Status: C2 



Survey site name: FRENCH CREEK (ANACONDA) 



EO rank: A 

 EO rank comments: VERY LARGE POPULATION, AREA FAIRLY 

 UNDISTURBED. 



County: DEER LODGE 



USGS quadrangle: LINCOLN GULCH 



Township: 002N Range: 012W Section: 12 Precision: S 

 Township-range comments: NW4 ,1,2,11 ;T3NR11W: 31 ;T3NR12W: 25,35,36. 



Survey date: 1988-05-17 Elevation: 6200 

 First observation: 1911 Slope/aspect: 



Last observation: 1991-06-04 Size (acres) : 800 



Location: 



FRENCH AND CALIFORNIA CREEKS. MOUNT HAGGIN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA, 

 m ALONG HWY. 274, CA. 17.5-20 MILES SSW OF ANACONDA. 



Element occurrence data: 



CA. 10,000-20,000+ INDIVIDUALS, IN NINE AREAS; YELLOW PLANTS OCCUR 

 MIXED WITH WHITE ONES, IN VARYING RATIOS FROM ALL YELLOW TO 1:100+ 

 YELLOW: WHITE, THROUGHOUT THE AREA; SITE PROBABLY SAME AS ORIGINAL 

 "ANACONDA" RECORDS. 



General site description: 



MOIST MONTANE GRASSLANDS; WITH DESCHAMPSIA CESPITOSA, DANTHONIA 

 INTEFy^EDIA, DODECATHEON CONJUGENS , POLYGONUM BISTORTOIDES , POTENTILLA 

 DIVERSIFOLIA, LOMATIUM COUS . 



Land owner/manager: 



BEAVERHEAD NATIONAL FOREST, WISE RIVER RANGER DISTRICT 



MT HAGGIN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREA 



BLM: BUTTE DISTRICT, HEADWATERS RESOURCE AREA 



Comments: 



1991: DON HEINZE ADDED TWO SUBPOPULATIONS TO S. SHELLY ' S SEVEN, IN 

 SECTION 10. VOUCHERS-SHELLY, J.S. (1413), AND LESICA, P., 1988, 

 MONTU; ALBRIGHT (807), 1911, MONT; BLANKENSHIP (768), POM. 



Information source: 



SHELLY, J.S. 1988. FIELD SURVEYS IN SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA OF 8 MAY, 

 17-18 MAY, 25-27 MAY, 4 & 10 JUNE. 



