MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM 

 Element Occurrence Record 



Scientific Name: ELYMUS FLAVESCENS 

 Common Name: SAND WILDRYE 



Global rank: G4 Forest Service status: 

 State rank: SI Federal Status: 



Element occurrence code: PMPOA6P080. 001 

 Element occurrence type: 



Survey site name: CENTENNIAL SANDHILLS 



EO rank: C 

 EO rank comments: SEVERAL SMALL POPULATIONS; LIMITED DISTRIBUTION. 



County: BEAVERHEAD 



USGS quadrangle: LOWER RED ROCK LAKE 



Township: Range: Section: TRS comments: 

 013S 002W 23 NE4; 14 



Precision: S 



Survey date: 1987-06-28 Elevation: 6680 - 



First observation: 1984 Slope/aspect: 



Last observation: 1987-09-03 Size (acres) : 1 



Location: 



CENTENNIAL SANDHILLS, AT THE NORTHEAST END OF THE CENTENNIAL VALLEY; 

 EAST END OF THE SAND HILL AREA. 



Element occurrence data: 



THREE SMALL COLONIES, ONE WITH 125-225 FLOWERING CULMS; PROBABLY OTHER 

 POPULATIONS IN THE AREA; EVIDENCE OF RECENT DISTURBANCE BY CATTLE IN 

 THE AREA. FOUND IN THE MOST OPEN SOILS. 



General site description: 



CREST OF A SAND HILL, BY AN OLD, HEALING BLOWOUT AND IN TWO OTHER 

 RECENTLY-DISTURBED AREAS. WITH STIPA COMATA, AGROPYRON CANINUM. 



Land owner /manager : 



PRIVATELY OWNED LAND (INDIVIDUAL OR CORPORATE) 

 STATE LAND - UNDESIGNATED 



Comments : 



Information source: ROE, LISA SCHASSBERGER. [BOTANIST.] 556 SPENCER, 



HELENA, MONTANA 59601. 



Specimens: SCHASSBERGER, L. A. (088). 1987. MONTU. 

 LESICA, P. (3211). 1984. MONTU. 



