MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM 

 Element Occurrence Record 



Scientific Name: PENSTEMON LEMHIENSIS 

 Common Name: LEMHI BEARDTONGUE 



Global rank: G3 

 State rank: S2 



Forest Service status: 

 Federal Status : 



SENSITIVE 

 C2 



Element occurrence code: PDSCR1L3N0 . 029 

 Element occurrence type: 



Survey site name: BLOODY DICK CREEK 2 



EO rank : C 

 EO rank comments: SMALL POPULATION, CLOSE TO ROADWAY. 



County: BEAVERHEAD 



USGS quadrangle: EVERSON CREEK 



Township: Range: Section: TRS comments: 

 010S 014W 05 NW4;4N2 



Precision 



Survey date 



First observation 



Last observation 



1989-06-29 Elevation: 6300 - 6400 

 1989-06-29 Slope/aspect: 0-8% / SW 

 1993-06-28 Size (acres) : 2 



Location: 



HORSE PRAIRIE, CA . 5 

 CREEK ROAD. 



1 MILES WEST OF RED BUTTE, ALONG BLOODY DICK 



Element occurrence data: 



1993: 3 SUBPOPULATIONS RELOCATED, ONLY 7 PLANTS SEEN IN 2; 19 PLANTS 

 IN THIRD (EASTERNMOST) SUBPOPULATION; FLOWERING WITH IMMATURE FRUIT. 

 1989: 22 PLANTS, FOUR SMALL SUBPOPULATIONS. 



General site description: 



ASSOCIATED SPECIES OBSERVED IN 1993: ERIOGONUM OVALIFOLIUM, CASTILLEJA 

 PALLESCENS, E. UMBELLATUM, LUPINUS LEUCOPHYLLUS , PENSTEMON ARIDUS, 

 HAPLOPAPPUS ACAULIS. 1989: ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA, CASTILLEJA 

 PALLESCENS, ORTHOCARPUS LUTEUS AND AGROPYRON SPICATUM. 



Land owner /manager : 



PRIVATELY OWNED LAND (INDIVIDUAL OR CORPORATE) 

 BLM: BUTTE DISTRICT, DILLON RESOURCE AREA 



Comments : 



SITE REVISITED IN 1993 BY JIM VANDERHORST. OTHER KNOWN POPULATIONS 

 ALONG THIS ROAD WERE SEARCHED FOR; SOME WERE FOUND BUT HAD FEWER 

 PLANTS THAN IN 1989, OTHERS COULD NOT BE RELOCATED, SOME POPULATIONS 

 INCREASED . 



Information source: 



Specimens : 



VANDERHORST, J. 1993. [MTNHP FIELD SURVEYS 

 CONDUCTED AT LEMHI PASS FOR THE BUREAU OF LAND 

 MANAGEMENT . ] 



