USFWS RNA RECORDS - MONTANA PLANT SPECIES OF SPECIAL CONCERN 



Scientific Name: CRYPTANTHA FENDLERI 

 Common Name: FENDLER CAT'S-EYE 



Global rank: G4 Forest Service status: 

 State rank: SI Federal Status: 



Element occurrence code: PDBOROAOXO . 005 

 Element occurrence type: 



Survey site name: MEDICINE LAKE SANDHILLS 



EO rank: 

 EO rank comments: 



County: SHERIDAN 



uses quadrangle: CAPENEYS LAKE 



Township: Range: Section: TRS comments: 

 031N 057E 20 SW4SW4 



Precision: S 



Survey date: Elevation: 2065 



First observation: 1997-07-02 Slope/aspect: 20% 



Last observation: 1997-07-02 Size (acres) : 



Location: 



MEDICINE LAKE SANDHILLS. CA. 2 AIR MILES NORTHWEST OF BEVERLY SCHOOL. 



Element occurrence data: 



COMMON IN SMALL AREAS OF TWO OF THE MOST ACTIVE BLOWOUTS, A HIGHLY 

 LOCALIZED HABITAT. 



General site description: 



UNSTABLE RIM OF OPEN SAND BLOWOUT HABITAT, WITH PSORALEA LANCEOLATA 

 AND ORYZOPSIS HYMENOIDES. 



Land owner/manager: 



MEDICINE LAKE WILDERNESS 



MEDICINE LAKE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 



PRIVATELY OWNED LAND (INDIVIDUAL OR CORPORATE) 



Comments : 



THERE IS POTENTIAL HABITAT BETWEEN ELEMENT OCCURENCES 005 AND 003, AND 

 THEY ARE LIKELY TO BE PART OF A COMPLEX POPULATION. 



Information source: COOPER, S. V. AND B. L. HEIDEL. 1999. BIODIVERSITY 

 INVENTORY AND REPRESENTATIVENESS ASSESSMENT OF 

 RESEARCH NATURAL AREAS ON NATIONAL WILDLIFE 

 REFUGES IN MONTANA. UNPUBLISHED REPORT TO U.S. 

 FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE. MONTANA NATURAL 

 HERITAGE PROGRAM, HELENA. 



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