MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM 

 Element Occurrence Record 



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Scientific Name: PENSTEMON WHIPPLEANUS 

 Common Name: WHIPPLE'S BEARDTONGUE 



Global rank: G5 Forest Service status: 

 State rank: SI Federal Status: 



Element occurrence code: PDSCR1L6P0 . 002 

 Element occurrence type: 



Survey site name: CENTENNIAL MOUNTAINS 



EO rank: BC 

 EO rank comments: THIS PRELIMINARY RANK IS BASED ON LIMITED SURVEY. 



County: BEAVERHEAD 



USGS quadrangle: UPPER RED ROCK LAKE 



Township: Range: Section: TRS comments: 

 014S OOIW 32 NE4NE4; 29 W2SE4 



Precision: S 



Survey date: 1993-08-06 Elevation: 7600 - 8100 



First observation: 1993-08-06 Slope/aspect: 2-10% / W-NE 



Last observation: 1993-08-06 Size (acres) : 10 



Location: 



CENTENNIAL MOUNTAINS; 2.5 MILES EAST OF LAKEVIEW IN VALLEY IMMEDIATELY 

 WEST OF SHEEP MOUNTAIN. 0.75-1.3 5 MILE ABOVE ROAD. 



Element occurrence data: 



50-100 PLANTS WITHIN THIS WATERCOURSE, WIDELY SCATTERED IN LOW 

 DENSITIES. IN PEAK FLOWERING AND EARLY FLOWERING, DEPENDING ON LIGHT 

 CONDITIONS. 



General site description: 



HEADWATERS AREA OF SMALL STREAM BELOW SHEEP MOUNTAIN IN OPEN MEADOW 

 AND ADJOINING FOREST ECOTONE OF AVALANCHE CHUTE ZONE AND LOWER SCREE 

 SLOPES. GROWING IN ALLUVIAL AND COLLUVIAL SOIL. ASSOCIATED SPECIES: 

 POA NERVOSA, BROMUS CILIATUS, FRAGARIA VIRGINIANA, ASTER INCONSPICUUS , 

 GEUM MACROPHYLLUM. 



Land owner/manager: 



BLM: BUTTE DISTRICT, DILLON RESOURCE AREA 

 RED ROCK LAKES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 



Comments : 



OBSERVED BY B. HEIDEL, D. CULVER, AND S. COOPER. 



Information source: 



Specimens: HEIDEL, B.L., CULVER, D., AND COOPER, S.V. (1158). 

 1993. 

 MONT. 



