MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM 

 Element Occurrence Record 



Scientific Name: SENECIO DEBILIS 

 Common Name: ROCKY MOUNTAIN RAGWORT 



Global rank: G3G4 Forest Service status: 

 State rank: SI Federal Status: 



Element occurrence code: PDAST8H110 . 003 

 Element occurrence type: 



Survey site name: SHAMBO POND 



EO rank: 

 EO rank comments: 



County: BEAVERHEAD 



USGS quadrangle: SLIDE MOUNTAIN 



UPPER RED ROCK LAKE 



Township: Range: Section: TRS comments: 



SW4, SE4 



Elevation: 6610 

 Slope/aspect: 

 Size (acres) : 



Location: 



NEAR SOUTHWEST SHORE OF UPPER RED ROCK LAKE, CENTENNIAL VALLEY, 0.2 5 

 MILE WEST OF SHAMBO POND ON NORTH SIDE OF ROAD. 



Element occurrence data: 



1993: 5 INDIVIDUALS COUNTED, 90% FLOWERING. 1983: COMMON. DISCOID 

 PLANTS ON NORTH SIDE OF LAKE, RADIATE PLANTS ON SOUTH SIDE. 



General site description: 



1993: SATURATED, PEATY BOTTOMLAND, WITH DESCHAMPSIA ELONGATUM, CAREX 

 SPP., JUNCUS SP., POLEMONIUM OCCIDENTALE, VALERIAN EDULIS. 1983: IN 

 MOIST, PROBABLY ALKALINE MEADOW AROUND SMALL LAKE; WITH JUNCUS 

 BALTICUS AND HAPLOPAPPUS LANCEOLATUS . 



Land owner/manager: 



RED ROCK LAKES WILDERNESS 



RED ROCK LAKES NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE 



Comments : 



INFREQUENT SIGNS OF GRAZING. POPULATION OBSERVED IN SW4 OF SECTION 20 

 BY DENISE CULVER IN 1993; COLLECTED IN SE4 OF SECTION 20 BY DORN IN 



1968. 



Information source: CULVER, D. 1993. [MTNHP FIELD SURVEYS IN THE 

 CENTENNIAL VALLEY, MONTANA, MAY-AUGUST.] 



Specimens: LESICA, P. (2819). 1983. SPECIMEN #092917. MONTU . 

 DORN, R. D. (725). 1968. MONT. 



