February 16, 1993 



MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM 

 Element Occurrence Record 



Scientific Name: ERIGERON LACKSCHEWITZII 

 Common Name: FRONT MOUNTAIN FLEABANE 



Global rank: G2Q Forest Service status: 

 State rank: S2 Federal Status: C2 



Element occurrence code: PDAST3M4F0. 001 

 Element occurrence type: 



Survey site name: MOUNT WRIGHT 



EO rank: BC 

 EO rank comments: FAIR POPULATION SIZE. 



County : TETON 



USGS quadrangle: MOUNT WRIGHT 



Township: Range: Section: TRS comments: 

 026N OlOW 25 S2; 26 SE4 



Survey date: 1982-07-23 Elevation: 7500 - 

 First observation: 1982 Slope/aspect: 



Last obseirvation: 1992-07-17 Size (acres) : 2 



Location: 



EAST FLANK OF MOUNT WRIGHT, EAST FRONT RANGE; NORTH OF TRAIL IN 

 SADDLE. 



Element occurrence data: 



1992: PEAK FLOWERING ON 17 JULY. 1983: SCATTERED PLANTS JUST ABOVE 

 UPPER KRUMMHOLZ. 198 2: MANY PLANTS, ABOUT 100, JUST BELOW DRY 

 LIMESTONE WALL 



General site description: 



NARROW, STEEP LIMESTONE OUTCROP IN CAREX RUPESTRIS HABITAT TYPE 

 BETWEEN CLUMPS OF DRYAS , WITH ERIGERON OCHROLEUCUS, POTENTILLA NIVEA, 

 ANDROSACE CHAMAEJASME. 



Land owner/manager: 



BOB MARSHALL WILDERNESS 



LEWIS & CLARK NATIONAL FOREST, ROCKY MOUNTAIN RANGER DISTRICT 



Comments: 



RECENTLY DESCRIBED STATE ENDEMIC. COLLECTIONS MADE OF INDIVIDUAL 

 FLOWER HEADS IN 1992 FOR MORPHOMETRIC STUDY. 



Information source: 



LACKSCHEWITZ, KLAUS. DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UNIV. OF 

 MONTANA, MISSOULA, MT 59812. 



Specimens: 



LACKSCHEWITZ, K. (10085, 10506). 1982 & 1983. SPECIMEN #s 089924, 



098541. MONTU. 



HEIDEL, B. (844). 1992. 



