MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM 

 Element Occurrence Record 



Scientific Name: LESQUERELLA SP NOV 1 

 Common Name: UNDESCRIBED BLADDERPOD 



Global rank: G2 Forest Service status: 

 State rank: S2 Federal Status: 



Element occurrence code: PDBRA1N240 . 004 

 Element occurrence type: 



Survey site name: NEMESIS MOUNTAIN 



EO rank: A 

 EO rank comments: EXCELLENT SITE IN PROPOSED BLM WILDERNESS AREA. 



County: BEAVERHEAD 



USGS quadrangle: MOUNT JEFFERSON 



Township: Range: Section: TRS comments: 

 014S 002E 31 NW4, SW4NE4 

 014S OOIE 36 NE4; 25 SE4 



Precision: S 



Survey date: 1992-07-26 Elevation: 8800 - 9200 



First observation: 1979-06-20 Slope/aspect: 



Last observation: 1992-07-26 Size (acres): ll| 



Location: 



CENTENNIAL MOUNTAINS, NEMESIS MOUNTAIN AND EAST ALONG RIDGELINE. 



Element occurrence data: 



1992: AT LEAST 500-1000 PLANTS IN PEAK FLOWERING AND EARLY FRUITING ON 

 27 JUNE. 1979: RARE. 



General site description: 



ALPINE SCREE SLOPES AND BELOW TO PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII/CAREX GEYERI 

 HABITAT TYPE ON SOUTH FACE, IN PINUS ALBICAULIS-ABIES LASIOCARPA PLANT 

 ASSOCIATION INCLUDING BURNED AREA. OTHER ASSOCIATED SPECIES: CAREX 

 ROSSII, GEUM ROSSII, HEDYSARUM SULPHURESCENS , LLOYDIA SEROTINA, POA 

 ALPINA, VALERIANA DIOICA. 



Land owner/manager: 



BLM: BUTTE DISTRICT, DILLON RESOURCE AREA 

 BEAVERHEAD NATIONAL FOREST, MADISON RANGER DISTRICT 



Comments : 



LOWRY SPECIMEN TAKEN IN FLOWER, AND PREVIOUS YEAR'S FRUIT IS IN POOR 

 CONDITION; ROE SPECIMEN TAKEN IN FRUIT. DETERMINED LESQUERELLA SP 

 NOVUM BY REED ROLLINS, 3/93. 



Information source: LOWRY, P. P., II. 1979. VASCULAR PLANTS OF THE A 

 CENTENNIAL MOUNTAINS INSTANT STUDY AREA, 

 BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA, AND ADJACENT CLARK AND 

 FREMONT COUNTIES, IDAHO. BUREAU OF LAND 

 MANAGEMENT, BUTTE DISTRICT. UNPUBLISHED REPORT. 57 PP. 



