MONTANA NATURAL HERITAGE PROGRAM 

 Element Occurrence Record 



Scientific Name: LESQUERELLA SP NOV 1 

 Common Name: UNDESCRIBED BLADDERPOD 



Global rank: G2 

 State rank: S2 



Forest Service status: 

 Federal Status: 



Element occurrence code: 

 Element occurrence type: 



PDBRA1N240.004 



Survey site name: 



EO rank: 



EO rank comments: 



NEMESIS MOUNTAIN 



A 



EXCELLENT SITE IN PROPOSED BLM WILDERNESS AREA. 



County : BEAVERHEAD 



USGS quadrangle: MOUNT JEFFERSON 



Township: Range: 

 014S 002E 

 014S OOIE 



Precision: 



Survey date: 



First observation: 



Last observation: 



Section: 

 31 

 36 



TRS comments: 

 NW4 , SW4NE4 

 NE4; 2 5 SE4 



1992-07-26 

 1979-06-20 

 1992-07-26 



Elevation: 8800 

 Slope/aspect: 

 Size (acres) : 



- 9200 



Location: 



CENTENNIAL MOUNTAINS, NEMESIS MOUNTAIN AND EAST ALONG RIDGELINE. 



Element occurrence data: 



1992: AT LEAST 500-1000 PLANTS IN PEAK FLOWERING AND EARLY FRUITING ON 

 27 JUNE. 1979: RARE. 



General site description: 



ALPINE SCREE SLOPES AND BELOW TO PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII/CAREX GEYERI 

 HABITAT TYPE ON SOUTH FACE, IN PINUS ALBICAULIS-ABIES LASIOCARPA PLANT 

 ASSOCIATION INCLUDING BURNED AREA. OTHER ASSOCIATED SPECIES: CAREX 

 ROSSII, GEUM ROSSII, HEDYSARUM SULPHURESCENS , LLOYDIA SEROTINA, POA 

 ALPINA, VALERIANA DIOICA. 



Land owner /manager : 



BLM: BUTTE DISTRICT, DILLON RESOURCE AREA 

 BEAVERHEAD NATIONAL FOREST, MADISON RANGER DISTRICT 



Comments : 



LOWRY SPECIMEN TAKEN IN FLOWER, AND PREVIOUS YEAR'S FRUIT IS IN POOR 

 CONDITION; ROE SPECIMEN TAKEN IN FRUIT. DETERMINED LESQUERELLA SP 

 NOVUM BY REED ROLLINS, 3/93. 



Information source; 



LOWRY, P. P., II. 1979. VASCULAR PLANTS OF THE 



CENTENNIAL MOUNTAINS INSTANT STUDY AREA, 



BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA, AND ADJACENT CLARK AND 



FREMONT COUNTIES, IDAHO. BUREAU OF LAND 



MANAGEMENT, BUTTE DISTRICT. UNPUBLISHED REPORT. 57 PP. 



