ELEMENT OCCURRENCE RECORD 

 Lescmerella humilis 



Occurrence number: 001 



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Gl 

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Forest Service status: SENSITIVE LIST 

 Federal Status: C2 



ST. MARY PEAK 



C 



RECREATIONAL USE OF HIKING TRAIL IS 



AFFECTING AREA (1990) . 



County: RAVALLI 



USGS quadrangle: SAINT MARY PEAK 



Township-range: 009N021W Section: 28 Precision: S 

 Township-range comments: SE4NW4,NE4; 21,SW4SE4 



Survey date: 1990-07-17 

 First observation: 1967 

 Last observation: 1990-07-17 



Elevation: 9200 

 Slope/aspect: 

 Size (acres) : 35 



Location: 

 ^ BITTERROOT RANGE, SUMMIT OF SAINT MARY PEAK. 



Element occurrence data: 



EST. 300-400+ PLANTS, SPARSELY SCATTERED IN AND ABOVE KRUMMHOLZ . 1990: 

 800+ PLANTS, MOST MATURE AND WITH IMMATURE FRUIT; VIGOR NORMAL TO 

 FEEBLE. 



General site description: 



1987: ON STEEP HILLSIDES OF METAMORPHOSED ROCKS; ALPINE SLOPES (EAST 

 AND SOUTH-FACING) , SANDY TO GRAVELLY GRANITIC FELLFIELD SOIL, WITH 

 PINUS ALBICAULIS, DRABA SPP. , IVESIA GORDONII, ERIGERON SIMPLEX, 

 HULSEA ALGIDA, SMELOWSKIA CALYCINA, ERITRICHIUM NANUM, DRYAS . 1990: 

 ALSO WITH PHLOX HOODII, ARENARIA OBTUSILOBA, PHLOX PULVINATA, LEDUM 

 GLANDULOSUM, GEUM ROSII, SEDUM LANCEOLATUM, PEDICULARIS CONTORTA. 



Land owner/manager: 



SELWAY- BITTERROOT WILDERNESS AREA 



BITTERROOT NATIONAL FOREST, STEVENSVILLE RANGER DISTRICT 



Comments: 



TYPE LOCALITY, NEWLY DESCRIBED SPECIES (1984); VOUCHERS- ROLLINS, 

 R.C., ET AL. (83300), 1983, GH ; PAVEK, D. (178), 1990, MONTU ; SHELLY, 

 J.S. (1381), 1987, MONTU. D. NEWMAN, UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, IS DOING 

 THESIS STUDIES ON THIS AREA. 



Information source: 



•NEWMAN, D. DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, 

 MISSOULA, MT 59812. 



Montana Natural Heritage Program 



