MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM 

 Element Occurrence Record 



Scientific Name: ASTRAGALUS ARGOPHYLLUS VAR ARGOPHYLLUS 

 Common Name: SILVERLEAF MILK-VETCH 



Global rank: G5T4 Forest Service status: 

 State rank: SI Federal Status: 



Element occurrence code: PDFABOFOSl. 001 

 Element occurrence type: 



Survey site name: MONIDA 



EO rank: 

 EO rank comments : 



County: BEAVERHEAD 



USGS quadrangle: MONIDA 



Township: Range: Section: TRS comments: 

 015S 006W 03 NE4 

 014S 006W 34 SE4 



Precision: S 



Survey date: 1985-06-10 Elevation: 6770 



First observation: 1985 Slope/aspect: 



Last observation: 1986-06-27 Size (acres) : 40 



Location: 



0.1-0.4 AIR MI. NW. OF MONIDA, N. OF OLD HIGHWAY ACROSS RR TRACKS. 



Element occurrence data: 



51-100+ INDIVIDUALS, NON-BLOOMING PLANTS DIFFICULT TO SEE; PLANTS ARE 

 SCATTERED, IN MEADOW WHICH HAS HAD SOME GRAZING; AREA IS REMOTE AND 

 NOT HEAVILY VISITED; SPECIES OCCURS IN SOMEWHAT DRIER, LESS HEAVILY 

 VEGETATED AREAS; NO FRUIT FOUND IN 1985. 



General site description: 



WET ALKALINE MEADOW, ON VERY GENTLE SLOPE; MEADOW DOMINATED BY 

 GRAMINOIDS, WITH PHLOX KELSEYI, JUNCUS BALITICUS, CAREX SPP., 

 ANTENNARIA MICROPHYLLA, TRIGLOCHIN. 



Land owner /manager : 



PRIVATELY OWNED LAND (INDIVIDUAL OR CORPORATE) 



Comments: 



Information source: LESICA, PETER. DIVISION OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 



UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, MISSOULA, MT 59812. 



Specimens: LESICA, P. (3370). 1985. MONTU. 



