2. State. 



a. Montana. 



i. Present designated or proposed 

 legal protection or regulation: 



None. 



ii. Other current formal status 

 recommendations: Eriqeron 

 lackschewitzii is currently 

 ranked by the Montana Natural 

 Heritage Program as "imperiled" 

 at both global and state levels 

 (global rank = G2 ; state rank = 

 S2) . These ranks do not provide 

 any legal protection for E. 

 lackschewitzii . 



iii. Review of past status: 



Previously listed as "rare in 

 Montana" by the Montana Rare 

 Plant Project (Lesica et al. 

 1984) . 



3. Description. 



General nontechnical description: Small herbaceous 

 perennial with unbranched stems, most often solitary 

 but also in clusters; arising from a long, woody 

 taproot and often from secondary and tertiary 

 branches above the taproot. Involucre conspicuously 

 woolly, obscuring bracts of live plants but loosing 

 this character when pressed. Ray flowers bluish 

 pink, drying light brown or purple when pressed; 

 rays consistently oblique to the plane of the disk. 

 Stem leaves usually extending fully halfway up stem. 

 Stem moderately covered by a combination of long 

 ascending to spreading hairs and short appressed 

 hairs (latter not mentioned by Nesom and Weber 

 1983) . Phyllaries appear deeply reddish-purple 

 tipped when pressed (Kerstetter pers. obs., Heidel 

 pers. obs.). See Appendix A for photos. 



Technical description: Perennial herbs from a long, 

 woody taproot with few or no branch or adventitious 

 roots; caudex simple or with a few short (up to 2 . 5 

 cm long) , thick branches to which old petiole bases 

 may remain attached, each branch producing 1-5 

 stems. Stems 3.5-8 cm high, more or less ascending, 

 unbranched, lanate-villous flattened and twisted 

 trichomes, more sparsely pubescent near the base. 



