ELEMENT OCCURRENCE RECORD 3< 



Lesquerella humilis 



Occurrence number: 003 



Global rank: Gl Forest Service status: SENSITIVE LIST 

 State rank: SI Federal Status: C2 



Survey site name: SAINT JOSEPH PEAK 



EO rank: B 

 EO rank comments: VERY SPARSE, SMALL PLANTS; SPOTTY 

 DISTRIBUTION. 



County: RAVALLI 



USGS quadrangle: SAINT JOSEPH PEAK 

 SAINT MARY PEAK 



Township-range: 010N021W Section: 28 Precision: S 

 Township-range comments: SW4NE4 



Survey date: 1990-08-29 Elevation: 9500 

 First observation: 1966 Slope/aspect: 8-35% / S, SE 



Last observation: 1990-08-29 Size (acres) : 20 



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"Location: 



BITTERROOT MOUNTAINS, SELWAY-BITTERROOT WILDERNESS AREA, ST. JOSEPH 

 PEAK. 



Element occurrence data: 



1971: MORE THAN 1000 PLANTS; SITE IS NOT CURRENTLY ACCESSIBLE BY 

 MAINTAINED TRAIL. 1990: CA. 700 PLANTS SPARSELY DISTRIBUTED OVER CA. 

 20 ACRES. 



General site description: 



DRY LEDGE, SOUTH SLOPE; ALPINE ROCKY FELLFIELD, WITH DRABA SPP., 

 DOUGLASIA MONTANA, ERIGERON SIMPLEX. 



Land owner/manager: 



SELWAY-BITTERROOT WILDERNESS AREA 



BITTERROOT NATIONAL FOREST, STEVENSVILLE RANGER DISTRICT 



Comments: 



NEWLY DESCRIBED SPECIES (1984); LACKSCHEWITZ , K.H., 1966, SPECIMEN 

 #60039, UM; LACKSCHEWITZ & GOUAUX, 1971, SPECIMEN #69003, UM. ROLLINS, 

 R.C. 1984. STUDIES IN THE CRUCIFERAE OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA II. 

 CONTRIB. GRAY HERB. 214: 1-18. 



Information source: 



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

 ^ MISSOULA, MT 59812, 



Montana Natural Heritage Program 



