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V05-2, Winter 1992 -\--.-- @a*-- Kelseya uniflora e{ CI w5N.2 \ey wtNTER 1ss2 ./ / tbweletter of tl'F tlontana Nailve Plant PROFILE: llontana's lJncommon Planfs.... JOVE'S BUTTERCUP...GIANT OF THE PI.ANT WORLD? - Jan Nixon Perhaps the name 'Jove's buttercup" suggests to you a commanding pr6s€nc6, a brawny individual shouldering its way through the spring meadows. ln fact, this specic, Ranunculus iovrs, is one of the most diminutive of our native terrestrial butterd.fps; onty tte pygmy busercup, R. Wgmaeus, is consistonUy smaller. So why the apparently incongruous name? This species was &scribed by Aven Nelson in 1900 from a collection made by E Nelson and L Gooding in Yellowstone National Park on July 13, '1899. The population from which thE tlpe sp€dmon was collected grows on a mountain ridge known as 'The Thunderer" which dividc Soda Butte Creek from tho Lamar River, in the northeasi quadrant of the Park. Lee Whittles€y, in Yellowstone Place l{amee, statss that the ridga was named by the Hagua USGS Expedition in '1885 because of impressiva thunderstorm activity while they ware camped in the vicinity. r I Glll Apparsntly Aven Nelson interpreted thE name with a more dassical bent, howEver, perhaps picturing Jovian thunderbolts Rmsrcurrrs lovis A Nels. boing flung at an unwary traveler. The article in which he first R.nunculaccac (Buttcrcllp Fanity) described this taxon (in the Bulleth of the Torrey Botanical Known tontent atations: Bcavcrhcad, Club 27:261), do€s not include a rationale for s€lecting that GNllatln and Park Countlc. particular nam6, so I am reading between th6 lines a little in nry interpretation of the specific epithet. Other c€llections were made in the western Wyoming/ea$ern ldaho/northeastern Utah region which comprises the main part of this species' range, and at l6ast one other name was propossd: I have se6n the species at two easy-to{6acfi locations in Ranuncultts digitatus was puHisfred by Hooker in 1851 for a Wyoming: at lake Butte Overlook, near the northeast "comer" of colledion made in the "Rocky Mountains near Fort HalI' [dafro]. Yellowstone Lake in the Park, and abore T€ton Pass wast of Howorer, this name was already applied to a ta:<on described by Jackson, on the rocky, sparsely-vegetated slopes north of (and a European botanist in 1781 , and so could not be applied to "out , several hundred feet abwe) the higfrway. The sectet of finding spcies, under th€ rules of the International Cods of Botanical this species is to get out early in the season, wfren the snorvpack Nomendature. is iust going away, and look for it on exposed, south-facing slopes Hitchcock et al,in Vascular Plantr of the Paciflc Nortlwest, in natural forest openings and meadows. lt seems to shov a Volume 2, not6 its d[stdbution as: "ln sagebrush to forested preference for rocky, calcareous soils - those derived from slopes; s.e. lda. to Nev., E to Yellowstone Nat. Park, s.w. Wyo, limetone parent materials. However Jennibr Whipple, amng€r- and adJ. Utah; usually blossoming soon after the snow recede. naturalist in Yellowstone, tells me she sees it quite commonly Late Mar.-June." around the gey€6r basins in the southaast part ofthe Park, where The buterarp rnay be locally common, with populations in tho ifs one of the earliest bloorners. Ge)lssr basins along the Firehole thousands notod ry several colledors working in the main part of River tend to b€ noutral to alkiline in pfl, again suggeting this its range. Until this )rear, it had only been collected twica in plant does not like acidic corditions. Montana, horvever: in 1928 along tfn Hellroaring/Buffalo divide, Jovs's hlttercup ison tho Forest Service Re$ofl One Sensitive jwt abwe the north edge of Yellowston€ Park, north of trs Plant list, and is listed by the Montana Natural Heritage Program Blacktail Plaleau area; and in 1965 by Wyoming botanist Robert as a "G4/S1" specie. "G4" m€ans it is apparently secura globally Dom in the Centennial Rarge, along tho Continontal Divide. Thr.rs (in terns of being threaton€d or andarqered), hrt may be quite it appears to barely edge into Montana at the furthest northem rare in parts of its range, epecially at the pedphery. 'S1" rneans extensions of its range. - condnued on Page 5 HOWELUA AQUANL'S PROPOSED FOR USTING AS AN ENDANGERED SPECIES qflin€d Morgan of [|e Dally l[{er Ltks. Thanks [sorreral mdttb€rs sent in copies of this articlre wtrich apared in the Missoulian on l{owmber 3, t 9g'l , Bi[ to *t of you br keepirq us up to datE on this issue. ,*,we,fia b a regional endemb in the Beltlloyer FamiV (Ganpandaceae), an annual occuning lt glacial pothole ponas anA oxLw slougls, where it bloonrs strning in late June. We will update you in luture issue as this plant proce€ds thtottgh the Fe&ral listing proces.l Grazing, timber sales seen as threats to rare local plant A legnl foundation in Jim VanDenburg, @lorado lus joi,ned with a silviculturist lor the Flathead Nationtl Kdbp€ll-bas€d consaryation \/ group, a bolanbt and the Foreststil FrtbY ttnt , Moiltana l.lative Phnt Sodety water Horellia b faitly ryr Swan in seeklng federal prdeciion oommon in the lor a rare phnt beliewd to Valby. 1V€g€trcportsof exist in onty five places, it lning bmd in sonte lncluding the Swan Valley. bgging sit€s,'he sald. granted, nlil Ttte plant has b€etl lfthe reque$ b ft vll as a candidate lor coub aflect timber harv€sting V [sted and grazirg in the Swan endarqered species for II th€ Valley. sareral years, atrd The BMivsrsity bgal Hwarfra.qutdts Forest Service has lbtsd Forndation ol Boulder, Cob., (HltcfFod( et al VrrcuLrr Pllnts V} it as a sensiti\re specbs, claims and the Swan View Goalition, ol $" Prdflc Nort|wc3t) but ttte coalition failed to the Flath€ad GhaPter ol the the agenry has Montana Native Plant protsct the plant requires studying tha Society, and botanbt Peter Lesica have lormally p€titioned the U S Fish The Flathead Forest timber-planning foc€ss as timber sal€s, on sansitiw and Wdlite Service to quickly list the Howellia aquatilis, commonly calbd effec*s ol ground-disturbing actMtbs, such a lergthier analysis the water How€llis, as an endangered planl species. plants. lf ttre plant were granted endangered $at$, in areas wherc the plant Th€ plant wtrich grows pdmuily underwater in ponds and slougts' b of possible ettects would be required lor sales known to exist in one location in ldaho, three locations in Washington state occuts. purchased the40G-ac're Swan Biver aml in parts ol ttre Srvan Valtey in Lake and Missoula counties. In 1985, tho Nature Conservancy for the Tlre coalition says one Washington site near Spokane and the Swan Oxbol Preserve adiacant to the Swan Lake Wldlife Befqe Valley location contain the only two concentrated populstions of the dant primary purpose ol protecting water HowEllia. plants were The Swan Valley plants are in ponds in conilerous forests. The lorests 'At the time we purchased it, we estimated that 6'000 ptanner group. The are 'being disturbed and altered by timber harvestirg' and roads there,' said Joan Bird, Montiana protedion for the constructed lor timber harvests, the group says. Swan Valley is the last b6t phce tor this plant. The coalition ad& that some of the ponds are subject to grazing by 'lt has alrea{ been bst from Calitomia and &egon atogelher.' livestock. 'Overgrazing has the potential to change pond substrat€s by compaction, and may alter water chemistry by addition ol nutrienB" the group says. pace ffhis column, one of the results ol the Conservalion Committee bull session at last May's Annual Meeting, b interded to help our membership keep with conservaliafl issues on many scales - state, region, nation, planel Ploase leel lree to send KELSEYA items to include, with 8n emphasb on issues ol more than local significance. See Page 8 tor deadline intormation lor the next issue.l WETIANDS PROTECTION Other critical wetlands-dependent sper:ies are still in need ol Wetlands harbor many important and sensitive planE and plant protec{ion. A llletlands Summit" b being ho6ted by the Montana Yvetlands issu6 communities. The Bush Administration has recently made attempts to Audubon C,ouncil in early January to discuss Montana weaken wetlanG protection. Senator Max Baucus has introduced a bill turther. See ANNOUNCEMENTS for details. (S10S1) that teauthorizes the Clean Water Act. This bill b a powerful tool to protect wetlands. Write Max to express your opinion and encourage ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT RENEWAL in the wetlands conseryation. Reneval of the Fedetat Endangered Species Act will come up Nlrough wetlands make up less than 1% of the sfate's total acreage, 1992 Congressional Session. Environmentalbts are waming that Ssnator approximatev 73% ol Montana's original wetlands are intad. There are extraclion industry lo'bbyists Yrill be trying hard to weaken the ad. Erwironment and Public Works nine Wes of wetlands recognized and considered critical nationwide' and Max Baucus is a member of the influential of Max's position Monlana contains two of ttrese: prairie potholes and western riparian Committee that will revieYv renewal of the Act. Because of constituents' wetlanG. Temporary wethnds, those areas that have water for only a on this pivotal committee and his telativety small number important legislation. Write or short time (ugrally in spring during snowmelt runotf), play a critical role lor Montanans have a lot of influence on this migrating birG by provkling sfielter and resting areas plts much needed call him to express yout oPinion.
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