Appendix 1. Species summaries and element occurrence records for uniflora, evertii, torulosa Helictotrichon hookeri, kluanense, and alpinum in the Carter Mountain Area of Critical Environmental Concern UYC»4ING NATURAL DIVERSITY DATABASE - The Nature Conservancy

Key to Selected Fields in the Element Occurrence Database

SNAME - The scientific name, in Latin, used in Wyoming (may be different in another state).

SCOMNAME - The common name used in Wyoming.

GRANK - The global rank assigned by TNC's network of Heritage Programs, based on world-wide distribution and threats. Ranks vary from G1, very rare or greatly threatened, through GS, common and secure.

SRANK- The state rank assigned by each state Heritage Program, based on distribution within the state. Again, these ranks vary from S1, very rare or threatened, through SS, common and secure. These ranks may be different from state to state depending on the range of the taxon in each state.

WYPLANT L!Sl-- WYNDD maintains a state lis~ where of special concern in the state appear on List 1, High Priority (rare, threatened, or endangered), List 2, Medium Priority, or List 3, Low Priority.

PRECISION - The degree of refinement for an occurrence when it is mapped on a USGS quad; S=within seconds, M=within minutes, G=general (somewhere on the cited quad).

COUNTYNAME - The county where the occurrence is located.

QUADNAME - The name of the USGS 7.5 minute quad. MARG NUM indicates the dot on the map at the WYNDD office.

LAT, LONG - Central latitude and longitude of the location if known from mapping procedures. S, N, E, and W indicate the boundaries of the occurrence.

TOWNRANGE - Legal description of the location of this occurrence, with township given in the first 4 characters (zero for blank characters), and range in the last 4 characters. SECTION indicates the section number within the given township.

MERIDIAN - Meridian upon which legal description is based. For Wyoming, this is the 6th Principal Meridian (6P), except the Wind River Indian Reservation, which is the Wind River Meridian (WR).

TRSCOMM- Comments upon the township, range, and section. Usually, this field contains an indication that more sections are involved or that the township and range may be based on data that is quite old and thus be only an approximate location.

DIRECTIONS - Location of this occurrence related to features on a map, often with access information.

EODATA -_Information on population size, number of individuals, whether the occurrence is increasing or declining, etc.

LASTOBS - Date the element was last seen at this location.

GENDESC - Description of what the area looks like on the ground, habitat, substrate, etc.

ELEV Elevation of the location.

SIZE - The size of the occurrence in acres; how large an area this occurrence covers.

MACODE, MANAME- Code and name of the managing agency if the location is on public land.

OWNER - If private land, the owner's name if known; also ownership by the State of Wyoming is indicated here.

OWNERCOMM - Comments about the ownership of the land. There may be an indication that surrounding areas belong to the State of Wyoming or are federal lands.

COMMENTS - Any other information that is important to this occurrence. Often this field will contain a reference to a museum/herbarium specimen.

BESTSOURCE - The best source for information on the site. Quite often it is a person, but could be an article in a journal or a report.

UPDATE - The last date that more information was added to this entire record. Campanula uniflora L. · Harebell

Legal Status: None

Natural Heritage Rank: G4S2

Description: Technical Description . Perennial with a taproot and slender, branched caudex, often decumbent at base, generally glabrous; stems lax, seldom over 1 dm tall; subcoriaceous, entire or obscurely callous­ toothed, basal leaves oblanceolate, 1-3 em long including the ·petiole; cauline leaves often much reduced and lanceolate, but sometimes as large.as the basal and then the basal leaves not apparent, becoming sessile, elliptic to oblanceolate or linear, entire to crenulate, glabrous or nearly so or the upper ones hairy, scabrous marginally; flowers solitary,- erect; hypanthium may hi:we a few .long, loose hairs; calyx united, the five lobes lance-attenuate, entire, 2-5 mm long; calyx and ovary often hairy; corolla united, regular, campanulate, blue, (4)6-12 mm long, the lobes ovate, equaling or.longer than the tube; style inserted; anthers 1-2.5 mm long; capsule elongate, tapering to the base,· 12-20 mm long, opening with pores near the summit. Characters useful in field identification

Generally glabrous, t~prooted, perennial herb with mostly basal leaves; scapes no more than 15 em tall, mostly less; leaves oblanceolate, usually ca 2 em wide, upper leaves reduced; flowers solitary, pedicellate, erect, blue, regular, united, bell-shaped, with 5 deep, narrow lobes; anthers 1-2.5 mm long; fruit elongate, cup-shaped, opening with pores near the apex. Flowering period: July-August

Distribution: Circumboreal, but mostly North American, extending from northern Alaska east to Hudson's Bay and , and south in the Rocky Mountains to Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.

ownership/management: Since arctic harebell grows at high altitude, it is most often found on lands managed by the u.s. Forest Service in the United States, including the Shoshone National Forest and the Cloud Peak Wilderness in the Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming. It also occurs on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management at the Carter Mountain ACEC in .the Cody Resource Area in Wyoming. It is suspected_to grow on public and private lands in Canada.

Habitat: Alpine tundra, often in talus or rock stripes, subalpine in rocky or grassy places at high altitudes, ca 10,000 feet.

unsurveyed potential habitat: Additional populations are likely to be found in unsurveyed portions of the range of the species, especially in some of the more inacessible high altitude areas of the Rocky Mountains. "_.· Population size: Populations are usually very scattered, and no information on numbers of individuals is available.

Potential and existing threats: ? other remarks:

~ uniflora seems to be fairly secure since it has a wide distribution on a global basis. However, the individual, scattered populations may be threatened .

. References:

Dorn, R.D. 1977. Manual-~f the vascular plants of Wyoming. New York: Garland Publishing Co., Vol. II, p. 1026. Dorn, R.D. 1988. Vascular plants of Wyoming. Cheyenne: Mountains West Publishing, p. 210. Hitchcock, C.L., A. Cronquist, M. Ownbey, and J.W. Thompson. 1959. Vascular plants of the Pacific Northwest. Part 4: Ericaceae through Campanulaceae. Seattle: University of Washington Press, p.488, 490. Hulten, E. 1968. Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories. Stanford: Stanford University Press, p. 851. Webber, W.A. 1990. Colorado flora: Eastern slope. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, pp. 248-249. Welsh, S.L., N.D. Atwood, L.C. Higgins, and s. Goodrich. 1987. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Memoir No. 9, p. 452. :' . \- .- ...... ~- ·: . 'r,'. ' •, -- ' ...I - .....·. ,. . _.··· . --. -.. - Element Tracking Record - CAMPANULA UNIFLORA - . . Tnontifiers: , . · ODE:_.~. .. PDCAM020YO ·.n

GTAXCOM:

Taxonomy (National): . NNAME: · NSYNNUM: · NCOMNAME:

NTAXCOM:

: (State): _SNAME: CAMPANULA UNIFLORA SSYNNUM: SCOMNAME: A BELLFLOWER

STAXCOM:

:atus (Global): GRANK: G4 GRANKDATE: GRANKFORM: GRANKRESP: USESA: USESADATE: CITES: IUCN: CONSPL: CONSPLRESP: STEWAB: STEWABRESP: EXSITU: EXSITUINST: JURISENDEM: . St.atus (National) : NRANK: WYLST3 NRANKDATE: NRANKFORM: NEOTRACK: NESTEOS: NPROTEOS: NABUND: NPROT: NREFNAME: NSLIDE:

Status (State): SRANK: S2 SRANKDATE: 90-12-06 SRANKFORM: SEOTRACK: Y SESTEOS: ·a SPROTEOS: C SABUND: A SPROT: P1248 SREFNAME: SSLIDE:

Optional Fields: OPTl.ET:

OPT2.ET:

OPT3.ET: .ET.OPT4:

SITIVE: Documentation & Maintenance: NSOURCECODE: SSOURCECODE: GUPDATE: NTT't?.T)ATE: S :lATE: 90-12-12 CAMPANULA UNIFLORA

Common Name: A BELLFLOWER Code: PDCAM020Y0*001*WY !DENT: Y Federal Status: GRANK: G4 SRANK: S2 State List: WYLST3

Sitecode: S.USWYHP*29 Site Name: CARTER MOUNTAIN County Code: County Name: Survey Site: CARTER MOUNTAIN ACEC WYPARK Park

USGS Quad Map Ten Quad Name: Code: Num: _Ten: NORTH FORK PICKETT CREEK 44109

Precision: Lat: 444015N S: E: Long: 1091730W N: W: TownRange: 049N103W Section: 07 Meridian: 6P TRSComments: NW4

Location: ABSAROKA MOUNTAINS, CARTER MOUNTAIN, NEAR THE HEAD OF MEETEETSE CREEK.

Survey Date: Last Observed: 1988-08-20 First Observed: 1988 EORank: EORankDate: EORankComments: EOData: EO KNOWN FROM HERBARIUM COLLECTION. 1990 SURVEY OF CARTER MOUNTAIN ACEC DURING MID AUGUST FAILED TO TURN UP ANY PLANTS OF THIS SPECIES.

Habitat Description: GEUM ROSSII-TRIFOLIUM SPP COMMUNITY IN TUNDRA OF SLOPES AND RIDGES.

Elevation: 10800 feet SIZE: acres

MACode: Managed Area Name: Contained: M.USWYHP*13 WORLAND DISTRICT OFFICE ? M.USWYHP*16 CODY RESOURCE AREA ?

More land: More protection: More management: TNC Involved: Y Management Comments:

Protection Comments:

Owner: Owner Comments:

General Comments: HERB. SPECS.: EVERT, E.F. 6133 (RM). 1990 SURVEY OF CARTER MOUNTAIN ACEC FAILED TO TURN UP MORE PLANTS, ALTHOUGH THE SURVEY WAS DONE IN MID-AUGUST, AT THE SAME TIME THAT THE SPECIES WAS COLLECTED IN BLOOM IN 1988. DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF SPECIES IS UNKNOWN. MAY BE IN ACEC AND ON ADJACENT SHOSHONE NF AND PRIVATE LAND.

Data Sensitivity: N Boundaries Drawn: N Photos: N Source Codes: PNDEVE01WYUS U91JON01WYUS

Best Source: EVERT, E.F.

Transcriber: 90-12-12 MLN Mapper: Last Update: 91-01-11 GPJ Code: PDCAM020Y0*001*WY Cymopterus evertii Hartman & Kirkpatrick () EVERT'S WAFERPARSNIP

Legal Status: Category 2

Natural Heritage Rank: WY - G3S3

Description (see Fig. 3 and slides in Appendix C):

Technical description: Low, tufted, herbaceous perennial, 1-19 em tall, acaulescent, aromatic when crushed with odor of orange peels; primary root 5-50 em long or more, the crown with few to many branches arising below ground, persisitent petioles or their frayed remnants conspicuous; leaves petiolate, 1.5-13 em long, 0.5-1.6 em broad, pinnate-pinnatifid to bipinnate or in part bipinnate-pinnatifid to tripinnate below, light green to gray-green, moderately to densely covered throughout with perpendicular trichomes; petiole 1.5-7 em long, expanded at base into a scarious sheath; a subcompact compound umbel 6-18 mm in diameter; peduncle terminal, ascending to erect, or arcuate-spreading in fruit, shorter than to much-exceeding the leaves, pubescent like the leaves or sometimes glabrous; involucre none; rays 3-8, to 15 mm long in fruit; umbellets mostly andromonoecious; bractlets 4-9, linear to lanceolate or elliptic, entire to erose, acute, white- or purple-margined, connate· for up _to 1/3 their length; pedicels to 8 mm long in fruit; flowers white or cream; to 0.9 mm long, subequal; petals 1.5-1.7 mm long; ovary puberulent; carpophore none; fruit terete to somewhat flattened dorsally, broadly elliptic to suborbicular, not constricted at commissure, (2) 3.5-5.2 (5.8) mm long, (1.8) 2.3-3.5 (4) mm broad, moderately to densely covered with irregular tubercles or crests, dull, reddish-brown to purplish, with tan to whitish ribs; dorsal and intermediate ribs to 0.5 mm broad, to 0.5 mm thick; lateral ribs or wings to 0.8 mm broad, to 0.6 mm thick (after Hartman & Kirkpatrick 1986).

Characters useful in field identification: Low, tufted herb; foliage grey-green; leaves many, to 13 em long, 0.5-1.6 em wide, finely divided (fern-like); flowers tiny, white, in tight flat clusters to 18 mm in diameter, on stalks usually exceeding the tuft of leaves; fruits roundish in cross-section, 3.5-5 mm long, to 3.5 mm across, ribbed. Cymopterus evertii differs from its close relative, ~- nivalis, in that the ovary is puberulent (with tiny hairs), and the fruits have thick ribs (in ~- nivalis, fruits have thin wings). ~- nivalis occurs both to the south and north of the range of ~. evertii, generally on limestone or dolomite.

Flowering period: May-July (fruits are helpful for identification) .

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FIG. I. Cymoprerus e1-ertii. A. Habit. B. Foliage leaf. C. Fruiting umbel. D. Flowering umbellet. E. Fruit. dorsal view. F. Mericarp transection. (A-E from D. Marrin 1555; F from R. Hartman 12799.)

Fig. 3 Cymopterus evertii (Hartman & Kirkpatrick 1986)

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EVERT'S WAFERPARSNIP

30 NOVEMBER 1988

74 Distribution: WY- southeast Absaroka Mountains (Park Co.), southwest Bighorn Basin (Hot Springs Co.).

Occurrences on Shoshone NF: Cymopterus evertii is known from the South Fork Shoshone River drainage from Carter Mountain northwest to Boulder Ridge, and from the Greybull River drainage southwest as far as Venus Creek (see accompanying maps and data sheets).

Habitat: Coarse volcanic soils on level to moderately sloping sites with other low, prostrate or cushion-forming forbs; occasionally on sandstone; 5800-10900 ft.

Unsurveyed potential habitat on Shoshone NF: Additional populations may occur on unsurveyed ridges along the Greybull and South Fork Shoshone River drainages within or near the known range of the species. Evert's waferparsnip has not been found on volcanics further north, south or west.

Population size: ·Populations generally are large, with many thousands, or even tens of thousands, of individuals (see accompanying data sheets) . Small populations (less than several hundred plants) were occasionally found on disturbed sites, in the vicinity of large populations, such as along the trail to Boulder Ridge.

Threats: No threats are known at this time.

Other remarks, summary and management needs: Sensitive status is not recommended for Cymopterus evertii at this time. Populations are large, and no threats are apparent. Though restricted in overall range, Evert's waferparsnip is sufficiently abundant within that range that vulnerability to extinction appears to be low at this.time.

References:

Hartman, R. L. & R. s. Kirkpatrick. 1986. A new species of Cyrnopterus (Umbelliferae) from northwestern Wyoming. Brittonia 38:420-426.

The Nature Conservancy. Unpublished surveys, element abstracts and database records. Avail. from: Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, The Nature Conservancy, 3165 University Station, Laramie, WY 82071.

US Fish and Wildlife Service. 1985. Notice of Review of plant taxa for listing as Endangered or Threatened Species. Fed. Reg. 50(188) :39525-39584.

EDITION: 30 NOVEMBER 1988

75 Element Tracking Record CYMOPTERUS EVERTII

Jn""ntifiers: 1 )DE: PDAPIOU140 'l'.KU.f>ICOS: NATION: us STATE: WY Taxonomy (Global): TAXCLASS: DICOTYLEDONEAE ORDER: FAMILY: APIACEAE GENUS: CYMOPTERUS GNAME: CYMOPTERUS EVERTII AUTHOR: Hartman & Kirkpatrick NAMESOURCE: N NAMEREF: TAXDIST: TAXQ: GCOMNAME: EVERT'S WAFERPARSNIP

GTAXCOM: Taxonomy (National) : NNAME: NSYNNUM: NCOMNAME: NTAXCOM: Taxonomy (State) : SNAME: CYMOPTERUS EVERTII SSYNNUM: 00 SCOMNAME: EVERT'S WAFERPARSNIP

STAXCOM: atus (Global): GRANK: G3 GRANKDATE: 90-01-09 GRANKFORM: C GRANKRESP: WYHP USESA: 3C USESADATE: 85-00-00 CITES: IUCN: CONSPL: N CONSPLRESP: STEWAB: STEWABRESP: EXSITU: EXSITUINST: JURISENDEM:

Status (National) : NRANK: WYLST1 NRANKDATE: 90-04-09 NRANKFORM: NEOTRACK: NESTEOS: NPROTEOS: NABUND: NPROT: NREFNAME: NSLIDE:

Status . (State) : SRANK: S3 SRANKDATE: 88-09-16 SRANKFORM: C SEOTRACK: Y SESTEOS: B SPROTEOS: SABUND: SPROT: E1 SREFNAME: SSLIDE: Optional Fields: OPT1.ET: OPT2.ET: OPT3.ET:

ET.OPT4:

HTIVE: RWL-USFS R2 Documentation & Maintenance: NSOURCECODE: SSOURCECODE: 6o-vo-o6 .) : 3:.LV\..o •..u.u.J: 60-10-06 ::a:.r.vaan~ CYMOPTERUS EVERTII

Common Name: EVERT'S WAFERPARSNIP Code: PDAPIOU140*020*WY IDENT: Y Federal Status: 3C GRANK: G3 SRANK: 53 State Plant List: WYLST1

Sitecode: S.USWYHP*29 Site Name: CARTER MOUNTAIN County Code: County Name: Survey Site: CARTER MOUNTAIN ACEC WYPARK Park

USGS Quad Map Ten Quad Name: Code: Num: Ten: NORTH FORK PICKETT CREEK

Precision: s Lat: 441200N S: 441130N E: 1091530W Long: 1091715W N: 441330N W: 1091745W TownRange: 049N103W Section: 30 Meridian: 6P TRSComments: ALSO EXTENDS INTO SEC 19,20,29. ALL BOUNDARIES ARE UNCERTAIN.

Location: TAKE WYO HWY 290 W FROM MEETEETSE TO PITCHFORK RANCH, THEN PUBLIC ROAD UP PICKETT CREEK AND UP CARTER MOUNTAIN. EO CONSISTS OF GROUPS OF PLANTS ON SLOPES AND RIDGETOPS OF DRAINAGES OF NORTH FORK PICKETT CREEK AND LITTLE ROSE CREEK.

Survey Date: 1990-08 Last Observed: 1990-08 First Observed: 1983 EORank: A? _,- EORankDate: 90-08-15 EORankComments: EO ESTIMATED TO CONTAIN SEVERAL HUNDRED INDIVIDUALS. PLANTS HAD BLOOMED SUMMER 1990, BUT FEW HAD SET FRUIT. EOData:

Habitat Description: EO OCCURS ON SPARSELY- TO MODERATELY-VEGETATED SLOPES WITH ROCKY SOILS, IN SOUTHWESTERN PART OF ACEC.

Elevation: 10000 feet SIZE: 500? acres

MACode: Managed Area Name: Contained: M.USWYHP*13 WORLAND DISTRICT OFFICE ? M.USWYHP*16 CODY RESOURCE AREA ?

More land: More protection: More management: TNC Involved: Y Management Comments: MONITOR DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF PLANTS.

Protection Comments:

Owner: Owner Comments:

General Comments: THIS EO IS COMBINATION OF EO # 009 (KIRKPATRICK'S COLLECTION ON N FK PICKETT CR - LITTLE ROSE CR DIVIDE) AND EO# 015 (EVERT'S COLLECTION IN LITTLE ROSE CR, IMPROPERLY IDENTIFIED AS ROSE CR.). AUGUST 1990 SURVEY OF CARTER MTN ACEC SHOWED EXTENDED BOUNDARIES OF EACH EO, AND STRONGLY SUGGESTED THAT THEY SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ONE.

Data Sensitivity: N Boundaries Drawn: ? Photos: Source Codes: U91JON01WYUS

Best Source: JONES, GEORGE. 1991. SURVEY OF PLANT SPECIES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST IN THE CARTER MOUNTAIN AREA OF CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN. REPORT TO BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, WORLAND DISTRICT OFFICE, BY THE WYOMING NATURAL DIVERSITY DATABASE. UNPUBLISHED.

Transcriber: 90-12-14 GPJ Mapper: Last Update: 91-01-11 GPJ Code: PDAPIOU140*020*WY Descurainia torulosa Wyoming Tansy Mustard

Legal status: C1

Natural Heritage Rank: G1S1

Description: Technical Description Annual or biennial (unclear), with well-developed taproot, stellate-hairy throughout, stems several to many, sometimes procumbent, arising from the dense cluster of crown leaves, 3-13 em long; leaves pinnately compound, primary lobes simple or with 1 or 2 subsidiary lobes, the blade 2-3 em long, mostly basal; inflorescence a ; sepals barely over 1 mm long, margins hyaline; petals spatulate, about 1.5 mm long, yellow; fruiting pedicels erect, slightly divergent from the rachis, or appressed to the rachis, 1.5-3mm long; fruits erect, slightly divergent from the rachis, or appressed to the rachis, terete, linear, torulose, long-tapering to tip, pubescent, 8-15 mm long, style about 0.2 mm long; seeds uniseriate, dark brown, about 1.3 mm long, wingless. Characters useful in field identification Annual or biennial, stellate-hairy, up to 13 em tall; leaves pinnately compound, generally in a basal cluster; cauline leaves few; petals 4, yellow, minute, about 1.5 mm long; fruit linear, long-tapering to the tip, torulose, hairy, appressed to the axis of the raceme or slightly divergent, 8-15 mm long on pedicels up to 3 mm long. Flowering/fruiting period: late June - early September, depending on the season's weather

Distribution: Known only from the Absaroka Mountains of northwest Wyoming and from Pine Butte in southwest Wyoming, at 7600-10,800 feet. The Pine Butte occurrence probably is a separate taxon. ownership/management:

~ torulosa grows on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (Cody and Green River Resource Areas) and by the u.s. Forest Service (Shoshone and Bridger-Teton National Forests). The Pine Butte occurrence is on private land adjacent to public land managed by the BLM. Habitat: Descurainia torulosa in the Absaroka Mountains occurs on sandy soil at the bases of cliffs, sometimes under slight overhangs or in small cavities. It also grows on ledges near sandy strata higher on cliffs .. Aspects of these sites ranges from south, through east, to notth. ~- The Pine Butte occurrence is on talus at the base of a north-facing cliff. unsurveyed potential habitat: Since occurrences are widely separated, additional populations are likely to be found in unsurveyed potential habitat in the Absaroka Mountains.

Population size:

Population size ranges from 19-65 individuals, most of which were flowering or in fruit during 1990 surveys. The plants all grow in close proximity to each other.

Potential and existing threats: Rarity of the plant and its small population size make Wyoming tansy mustard very vulnerable, even to collecting for further study. Gas and oil drilling could affect habitat adversely. Since habitat is generally inacessible, grazing and recreation on surrounding land are probably not threats.

Other remarks: The plants of Descurainia torulosa at Pine Butte in southwestern Wyoming differ morphologically from the northern plants and may be a different taxon. The validity of ~ torulosa as a distinct species, separate from Descurainia incana, is in question. Taxonomic study is now underway and conclusions are expected within the next year (Marriott, 1991). ! References:

Dorn, R.D. 1988. Vascular plants of Wyoming. Cheyenne: Mountains West Publishing, p. 210.

Marriott, H. J. 1991. Status report for Descurainia torulosa. Prepared for Bridger-Teton and Shoshone National Forests by the Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, The Nature Conservancy.

Rollins, R.C. 1983. studies in the Cruciferae of Western . jour. Arnold Arbor. 64: 491-510. Element Tracking Record DESCURAINIA TORULOSA

Jdentifiers: E >DE: PDBRAOX070 'l:.l:(u.t?ICOS: NATION: US STATE: WY Taxonomy (Global) : TAXCLASS: DICOTYLEDONEAE ORDER: CAPPARALES FAMILY: BRASSICACEAE GENUS: DESCURAINIA GNAME: DESCURAINIA TORULOSA AUTHOR: Rollins NAMESOURCE: N NAMEREF: TAXDIST: TAXQ: GCOMNAME: WYOMING TANSYMUSTARD GTAXCOM: SPECIMENS FROM THE THREE RECENTLY DOCUMENTED LOCATIONS DIFFER SOMEWHAT MORPHOLOGICALLY. GENERAL AGREEMENT THAT TAXONOMY IS UNCLEAR.

Taxonomy (National): NNAME: NSYNNUM: NCOMNAME: NTAXCOM: Taxonomy (State) : SNAME: DESCURAINIA TORULOSA SSYNNUM: 00 SCOMNAME: WYOMING TANSYMUSTARD

~XCOM:

Status (Global): GRANK: Gl GRANKDATE: 85-01-09 GRANKFORM: C GRANKRESP: WYHP USESA: Cl USESADATE: CITES: IUCN: CONSPL: N CONSPLRESP: STEWAB: STEWABRESP: EXSITU: EXSITUINST: JURISENDEM: Status (National): NRANK: WYLSTl NRANKDATE: 90-04-09 NRANKFORM: NEOTRACK: NESTEOS: NPROTEOS: NABUND: NPROT: NREFNAME: NSLIDE: Status (State): SRANK: Sl SRANKDATE: 84-03-06 SRANKFORM: C SEOTRACK: Y SESTEOS: A SPROTEOS: A SABUND: A SPROT: E17 SREFNAME: SSLIDE: Optional Fields: OPTl.ET:

OPT2.ET:

OPT3.ET: E >PT4: SENSITIVE: RS-USFS R2 S-USFS R4 RS-BLM RSD Documentation & Maintenance: NSOURCECODE: SSOURCECODE:

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Comnon Name: WYOMING TANSYMUSTARD Code: PDBRAOX070*002*WY IDENT: Y Federal Status: C1 GRANK: G1 SRANK: S1 State Plant List: WYLST1

Sitecode: S.USWYHP*97 Site Name: NORTH FORK PICKETT-LITTLE ROSE CREEK DIVIDE .survey Site: LITTLE ROSE CREEK. County Code: County Name: WYFREM Fremont

Precision: S USGS Quad Map Ten Quad Name: Code: NLJD: Ten: NORTH FORK PICKETT CREEK 4410923 1 09,04

Lat: 441158N :S: E: Long: 1091613W N: W: TownRange: 049N103W Section: 20 Meridian: 6P. TRSComments: SW4 SW4, S29 NW4 NW4, S30 NE4 NE4 I

Location: SE ABSAROKA MTS, LITTLE ROSE CREEK OFF DIRT ROAD UP CARTER MT

Survey ,Date: Last Observect: 1989-07 First Observed:~ 1984 EORank: B?· EORankDate: 90-03-05 EORankComments: NEAR DIRT ROAD, NO PLANTS FOUND IN 1989 SMALL HOWEVER) EOData: ALL PLANTS FOUND IN 1989 BY DORN WERE D. INCANA (WHICH WAS MIXED WITH ORIGINAL COLLECTION)·

Habitat D.escr.iption:. ROCKY VOLANIC SOILS

. Elevation: 9800 feet SIZE: 0 acres

MACode: Managed Area Name: -- Contained: M.USWYHP*43 SHOSHONE NATIONAL FOREST y

More land: More protection: More management: TNC Involved: Management Comments:

Protection Comments:

Owner: Owner Comments:

General Comments: HERB. SPECS.: KIRKPATRICK. R. 5191A CRM). DORN'S LOCATION, INCLUDED FOR THIS RECORD, MAY NOT BE THE SAME AS THAT GIVEN BY KIRKPATRICK

Data Senesitivity: N Boundaries Drawn: Y Photos: N Best Source: DORN, R.D. (1989 STATUS REPORT)

Source Codes: PNDDOR01WYUS

Transcriber: 87-03-12 HJM Mapper: 90-06-05 PRJ Last Update: 90-11-07 HJM Helictotrichon hookeri (Scribn.) Henrard Poaceae Spike Oatgrass

.~egal Status: None Natural Heritage Rank: G5S2

Description: Technical Description / . ..---- Plants perennial, tufted; culms 1.5-4.5 dm tall, hollow, glabrous to puberulent; sheaths open, glabrous to scaberulos; leaf blades (1)2-4 nun wide, 4-20 em long, flat or involute, puberulent adaxially, scabrous abaxially; ·collars puberulent; auricles absent; ligules membranous, 2-5 mm long, .acute, lacerate, puberulent.abaxi.ally. Panicle narrow, branches erect, 5-.10 cm ... long, mostly with a single spikelet; spikelets ca 1.5 em long, 3-6 flowered, these extending beyond the glumes; glumes very thin, subequal, slightly shorter than spikelet, 8-14 mm long, 1-5-nerved; lemmas mostly 10-12 mm long, 5-9-nerved,. firm brown, scaberulous, apex with narrow teeth, awned from .a.little above·the middle; .awn twisted below, geniculate, sometimes bent twice, 1-2 em long; callus short-bearded, pale, the hairs less than 1 mm long; .anthers 2.7- 4. 5 mm long. ·

Characters useful in fiel~ identification Caespitose perennials, tufted, with culms in some cases to 7.5 dm tall; leaf blades glabrous to scaberulous, thickened and whitish on the margins, the midrib prominent and whitish below, folded in the bud and often so at maturity, the tip boat-shaped; sheaths glabrous, keeled, open to the base; ligules membranaceous, whitish, usually lacerate, 3-7 mm long on the culm leaves; auricles lacking. Inflorescence a congested, narrow panicle, averaging 6-11 em long, most banches bearing only 1-2 spikelets with 3-5 florets; disarticulation above the glumes and between the florets; rachilla bearded; glumes about as long as the spikelet, acute, thin·and membranaceous, the first glume 3-nerved, 9-13 mm long, the second 3-5-nerved and 11-14 nun long; lemmas firm, 5-nerved, the lowest 10-12 nun long, awned from about middle with a distinctive, strong, geniculate, twisted awn 12-16 mm long. Flowering period: June-August -· .. '

Distribution: Northwest Territories (southern Yukon) and Alberta in Canada south through Montana and Wyoming to Colorado and New Mexico, . ,_.,·. east across the northern plains to Minnesota and North Dakota •

· ·. ,~ · ownership/management: '· Throughout its range in th$ United States, spike oatgrass grows on private lands, and on public lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management. Within Wyomirig, it is only known from.the BLM (Carter Mountain ACEC, Cody Resource Area) and National Forest Lands (Shoshone National Forest) in Park County.

Habitat: From dry areas of open vegetation near woods in the foothills and on prairie slopes, to dry sites and mesic sites in alpine tundra.

unsurveyed potential habitat:

Since !L.. hookeri is a grass that resembles~.Avena, it may not have been collected more ofterr. due to oversight~ however, it· is still thought to be rare in Wyoming. Additional. populations are likely to be found in unsurveyed suitable habitat·in the range of· the species. .

Population size: _..... No information available.

Potential and.existing threats: Grazing may be a threat.

Other remarks: · The species in this genus are closely allied to the genus Avena and for many years were considered part of Avena. They resemble oats, except that Helictotrichon tends to have a closed, rather than open panicle. !L.. hookeri may also be called Avenochloa hookeri (Scribn.) Holub; cf. Acta Hort. Bot. Prag. 1962: p. 84.

References: Cronquist, A., A.H. Holmgren, N.H. Holmgren, J.L. Reveal, and P.K. Holmgren. 1977. Intermountain flora: Vascular plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. Volume 6, The Monocotyledons. New York: Columbia University Press, p. 264. ·:· :.·.

Dorn, R.D. 1977. Manual of the vascular plants of Wyoming. New York: Garland Publishing Co., Vol. I, p. 751.

Dorn, R.D. 1988. Vascqlar plants of Wyoming. Cheyenne: · Mountains West Publishing, p. 210~ -~· ·4 .-· '· ·Hallsten, G.P., Q.D. Skinner, and A.A. Beetle. 1987. Grasses of Wyoming, third edition. Agricultural Experiment Station Research Journal 202, University of Wyoming, Laramie, p. 30 . ... -. . McGregor, R.L., T.M. Barkley, R.E. Brooks, and E.K. Schofield (eds.) •. 1986. Flora of the Great Plains, by the Great Plains Flora Association. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, pp.1183-1184.

Welsh, S.L. 1974. Anderson's flora of Alaska and adjacent parts of Canada. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, pp. 367- 368. ., ·I. -:· . .. ' : . ·· ... :. ·Element Tracking Record HELICTOTRICHON HOOKERI Identifiers: l ODE: PMPOAOTOlO . ~ ...... PICOS: : NAT'rON:'· us STATE: WY ' Ta:xonomy (Global) : f' ·:T~CLAS~ :. MONOCOTYLEDONEAE ORDER: CYPERALES i F~ILY: POACEAE GENUS: AVENOCHLOA !' GNAME: AVENOCHLOA HOOKERI rAUTHOR: (Scribn.) Holub { NAME SOURCE: 8 0 NAMEREF: B8 OKARO lHQUS TAXDIST: TAXQ: GCOMNAME: SPIKE-OAT

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HELICTOTRICHON HOOKER!

Common Name: SPIKE-OAT Code: PMPOAOT010*004*YY !DENT: Y Federal Status: GRANK: G5 SRANK: S2 State Plant List:

Sitecode: S.USWYHP*29 Site Name: CARTER MOUNTAIN County Code: County Name: Survey Site: CARTER MOUNTAIN ACEC YYPARK Park

USGS Quad Map Ten Quad Name: Code: Num: Ten: THOMAS RESERVIOR NORTH FORK PICKETT CR BELKNAP CREEK

Precision: S Lat: 421400N S: 441130N E: 1091300W Long: 1091630W N: 441515N Y: 1091730W TownRange: 049N103W Section: 08 Meridian: 6P TRSComments: ALSO SEC 4,5,9,10,11,16,17,18,19,20,30

i Location: TAKE WYO HYY 290 Y FROM MEETEETSE TO PITCHFORK RANCH, THEN PUBLIC ROAD UP PICKETT CREEK AND UP CARTER MOUNTAIN. EO OCCURS IN ALPINE TUNDRA OF SLOPES AND RIDGE TOPS IN DRAINAGES OF ROSE, RAWHIDE, AND MEETEETSE CREEKS.

Survey Date: 1990-08 Last Observed: 1990-08 First Observed: 1990 EORank: A/B EORankDate: 90-08-15 EORankComments: EO ESTIMATED TO INCLUDE SEVERAL THOUSAND PLANTS, IN GROUPS OF < 100 TO SEVERAL HUNDRED, SCATTERED THROUGHOUT AREA. PLANTS WERE IN FLOWER DURING SURVEY AND APPEARED VIGOROUS. EOData: EO CONSISTS OF GROUPS OF PLANTS IN ALPINE TUNDRA OF CARTER MOUNTAIN. GROUPS VARY IN SIZE FROM < 100 ON SPARSELY-VEGETATED SLOPES TO SEVERAL HUNDRED ON EAST- AND NORTH-FACING SLOPES AND IN VALLEY BOTTOMS.

Habitat Description: SPECIES GROWS IN GEUM ROSSII-TRIFOLIUM SPP. AND GEUM ROSSII-POLYGONUM BISTOITOIDES COMMUNITIES ON SLOPES, RIDGES, AND VALLEY BOTTOMS OF CARTER"MOUNTAIN.

Elevation: 10300 feet SIZE: 5000 acres

MACode: Managed Area Name: Contained: M.USYYHP*13 WORLAND DISTRICT OFFICE N M.USWYHP*16 CODY RESOURCE AREA N

More land: More protection: More management: TNC Involved: Y Management Comments: MONITOR TO INSURE THAT GRAZING DOES NOT HARM DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF PLANTS.

Protection Comments:

owner: DESERET RANCHES Owner Comments: DESERET RANCHES IS FARM AND RANCH OPERATION RUN BY LOS CHURCH

General Comments: SPECIES GROWS ON PUBLIC LAND AND PRIVATE LAND WITHIN ACEC, AND MAY EXTEND NORTHWARD AND WESTWARD ONTO SHOSHONE NF LAND.

Data Sensitivity: N Boundaries Drawn: Y Photos: N Source Codes: U91JON01WYUS

Best Source: JONES, GEORGE. 1991. SURVEY OF PLANT SPECIES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST IN THE CARTER MOUNTAIN AREA OF CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN. REPORT TO BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, WORLAND DISTRICT OFFICE, BY THE WYOMING NATURAL DIVERSITY DATABASE. UNPUBLISHED. Transcriber: 90-12-14 GPJ Mapper: Last Update: 91-01-11 GPJ Code: PMPOAOT010*004*~ ' . '· ' '~ ...

Papaver kluanense D. Love Alpine poppy

•'··Legal Status: None

":Natural Heritage Rank: G4S2 Description: Technical Description Perennial, caespitose, scapes rarely exceeding 12-15 em in height; leaves basal, short-petioled, 1-3 em long, 5-15 em wide, deeply pinnately lobed or compound, pubescent with light brown, short hairs; peduncles also pubescent with light brown, short hairs particularly dense at the topsepals:2, 8-13 mm long, early deciduous; flowers.2-3 em in diameter; petals 4, yellow, 1-1.5 em long; , stigma vaulted but not peaked and its rays: connected by a yellowish membrane; capsules dark brown and covered with coarse brown hairs. Characters useful in field identification Caespitose, dwarf perennial with.compound, basal leaves,: bearing a single, 4-petaled flower·on the 12-15 em scape; the hispid scape is nodding in bud,.erect in flower and fruit; flower petals are shprt-lived, yellow or·pale to nearly white; capsules are roundish. about as broad as· long, with distinctive coarse, stiff, brown hairs. Flowering period: August Distribution: . This taxon grows in the Rocky Mountains from the Yukon, British Columbia and Alberta in Canada to Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico in the u.s., at rather high altitiudes. Although widespread, there are broad gaps between populations and it seems to occur infrequently in small stands on high peaks. Plants from the Uinta Mountains in Utah are significantly different and have been assigned to various taxa (~ kluanense, ~ radicatum, ~ radicatum var. pygmaeum, ~ pygmaeum). ownership/management: Papaver kluanense grows primarily on US Forest Service lands in the United States. Since it does grow at high altitudes, it has been found in wilderness areas (documented from Bridger and Cloud Peak Wildernesses in Wyoming). Habitat: Alpine poppy is found in crevices of open, rocky areas and on well-developed tundra with mosses in the alpine and subalpine. Populations are usually small stands, with scattered plants. ·.Unsurveyed potential habitat: ' ~-­ ~· Additional populations are likely to be found in unsurveyed, more-or-less inacessible high mountains in the range of the species. Population size: Papaver kluanese seems to occur in small populations, and individuals will be scattered. The literature and collections do not seem to indicate that there are ever dense stands. Potential and existing threats: Other remarks: .There are three rather distinct groups of Papaver at high altitude in.the Rocky Mountains, and~ kluanense seeems to be separate from the other two. Love (1969) recognizes ~ kluanense, ~ pyqmaeum, and the collections from the Utah populations in the Uinta Mountains. Welsh et al. (1987) and other. authors have called these Rocky Mountain groups varieties of Papaver radicatum, which is circumboreal and grows from Alaska to New Mexico in the Rockies. The taxonomy is currently under review, and results are expected within the next year or so. References: Darn, R.D. 1977. Manual of the vascular plants of Wyoming. New York: Garland Publishing Co., Vol. II, p. 1026. Darn, R.D. 1988. Vascular plants of Wyoming. Cheyenne: · Mountains West Publishing, p. 210.

Love, D. 1969. Papaver at high altitudes in the Rocky Mountains. Brittonia 21: 1-10.

Webber, W.A~ 1990. Colorado flora: Eastern slope. Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, pp. 248-249. Welsh, S.L., N.D. Atwood, L.C. Higgins, and S. Goodrich. 1987. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Memoir No. 9, p. 452. ., ( :-: ·,.· ' ; . '·, ·, __ ···. ·.· •'. ' , . ~ . Element Tracking Record PAPAVER KLUANENSE

Identifiers: .. ODE: PDPAPOHOHO '-··-PI COS: NATION:· us. . j: STATE: WY ; ~- - . . . . . ,_ ~' ~-- :·-Taxonomy CGloball : ~- TAXCLASS :_ DICOTYLEDONEAE ORDER: PAPAVERALES :_ FAMILY:-. . . PAPAVERACEAE GENUS: PAPAVER ~- G~M.ffi.:' . . . PAPAVER KLUANENSIS · .AUTHOR:. D. Love . NAMESOURCE: NS - NAMEREF: TAXDIST: TAXQ: GCOMNAME: ALPINE POPPY

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Status (State) : SRANK: S2 SRANKDATE: 86-05-29 SRANKFORM: C SEOTRACK: Y SESTEOS: SPROTEOS: SABUND: SPROT: ?124 SREFNAME: SSLIDE:

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Legal status: None

Natural Heritage Rank: G4G5S2

Description: Technical Description Small, perennial herb, glabrous, scapose to sub-scapose, 0.3-2.5 dm high;·leaves largely basal, usually biternately compound, 2-8(13) em long, leaf~ets cuneate to flabellate, ·leathery, 2-8 mm long, usually·not as_ wide; inflorescence a simple raceme, elongate; flowers bisexual, reddish-brown; peduncles arching; sepals purplish-tinged, 1-2 mm long; mostly 8-15, filaments linear to slightly expanded _apically, anthers 1.5-3mm long; pistils 2-5; achenes subsessile, borne on a re~lexed to pendulous pedicel, 2-3.5 mm long, the beak less than 1 mm long, with ca 12 fairly prominent nerves, the nerves simple, running from beak to base of the.achene with the+/- short stipe smooth. Characters useful in field identification . . Rhizomatous, glabrous, perennial herb with basal, biternately compound leaves; stems leafless or with·a single, much reduced leaf; flower&bisexual, reddish-brown, regular, small, but more or less conspicuous due to the absence of sepals and petals; sepals 4-5, greenish, early deciduous; petals lacking; fruit a sub-sessile achene, with ca 12 nerves.

Flowering period: June through September. - Distribution: Circumboreal; extending south from the Arctic to the mountains of Europe and ; in North America in Alaska and the Yukon, east to the Atlantic, south through the mountains to California, Nevada and New Mexico.

ownership/management: Since this is a montane species, it often will be found on lands administered by the u.s. Forest Service. In Wyoming, Alpine meadow rue is known to occur. in the swamp Lake Special Botanical Area of the Shoshone National Forest, and on Carter Mountain Area of Critical Environmental Concern, an ACEC administered by the Bureau of Land Management, Cody Resource Area.

·· Habitat: ~ . •'· ~~ ·.. ~- . ·.. .' ·Montane; alpine tundra, moist areas, wet meadows and cold ~' . r·--· .(often calcareous) bogs in willow-sedge, lodgepole pine and f ,·spruce-fir communities, sometimes on stony slopes, above 6000. feet in the mountains, but most often nearer to 9000 feet • .·; : unsurveyed potential habitat: Additional populations may be found in unsurveyed potential habitat--throughout the range of this species.

Population size: There is little known about population numbers; at Swamp_ Lake the population was observed to be fairly larg;e (over 200 individuals).

Potential and existing threats: Draining of bogs, fragility of montane communities.

·other remarks:

References: Boivin, B. 1944. American Thalictra and their Old World allies. Rhodora 46: 337-377.~ Dorn, R.D. 1977. Manual of the vascular plants of Wyoming. New York: Garland Publishing Co., Vol. II, p. 1026. Dorn, R.D. 1988. Vascular plants of Wyoming. Cheyenne: Mountains West Publishing, p. 210. Hulten, E. 1968. Flora of Alaska and neighboring territories. · Stanford; Stanford University Press, p. 487. Webber, W.A. 1990. Colorado flora: Eastern slope. Niwot, co: University Press of Colorado, pp. 248-249. Welsh, S.L. 1974. Anderson's flora of Alaska and adjacent parts of Canada. Provo: Brigham Young University Press, pp. 367- 368. Welsh, S.L., N.D. Atwood, L.C. Higgins, and S. Goodrich. 1987. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Memoir No. 9, p. 452. - •> ·;~:- • '• - _.. -. ' ·-;-· ,, r : . •, .~ .: ·. •. .. .

Element Tracking Record THALICTRUM ALPINUM

):dentifiers: J )DE: PDRANOMOlO 'i:.Kv.t?ICOS: NATION:",. us STATE: WY ~~Mth6~v (Giabal>·= . (.TAXCLASS.:. · . DICOTYLEDONEAE ORDER: f FAMILY: :. . RANUNCULACEAE GENUS: THALICTRUM -'!. GNAME.£' .; · THALICTRUM ALPINUM ' AU.THOR:·.. L. ' . NAMESOURCE: 80 NAMEREF: B80KAR01HQUS TAXDIST: TAXQ: GCOMNAME: ALPINE MEADOW-RUE

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-- THALICTRUM ALPINUM

Common Name: Code: PDRANOM010*001*WY !DENT: Y Federal Status: GRANK: G4G5 SRANK: S? State Plant List:

Sitecode: S.USWYHP*29 Site Name: CARTER MOUNTAIN County Code: County Name: Survey Site: CARTER MOUNTAIN ACEC WYPARK Park

USGS Quad Map Ten Quad Name: Code: Num: Ten: THOMAS RESERVIOR NORTH FORK PICKETT CR BELKNAP CREEK

Precision: s Lat: 441430N S: 441230N E: 1091200W Long: 1091430W N: 441520N W: 1091600W TownRange: 049N103W Section: 09 Meridian: 6P TRSComments: ALSO SECTIONS 2,3,4,5,8,10,11,15,16,20

Location: TAKE WYO HWY 290 W FROM MEETEETSE TO PITCHFORK RANCH, THEN PUBLIC ROAD UP PICKETT CREEK AND UP CARTER MOUNTAIN. EO CONSISTS OF PATCHES OF THALICTRUM IN ALPINE TUNDRA OF SLOPES AND RIDGE TOPS IN DRAINAGES OF ROSE, RAWHIDE, AND MEETEETSE CREEKS.

Survey Date: 1990-08 Last Observed: 1990-08 First Observed: 1990 EORank: A/B EORankDate: 90-08-15 EORankComments: THALICTRUM APPEARS ROBUST, ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT FLOWERING DURING THE 1990 VISIT. PLANT GROWS OVER AREAS UP TO SEVERAL HUNDRED SQ METERS, AND IS COMMON. EOData: THALICTRUM GROWS BENEATH TALLER FORBS AND GRAMINOIDS OF ALPINE MEADOWS, OVER AREAS OF UP TO SEVERAL HUNDRED SQ METERS. PATCHES ARE COMMON, MAINLY ON NORTH- AND EAST-FACING SLOPES AND ON RIDGE TOPS WITH MODERATELY-DENSE TO DENSE VEGETATION. THALICTRUM GROWS IN GEUM ROSSII-TRIFOLIUM COMMUNITIES.

Habitat Description: SPECIES GROWS IN GEUM ROSSII-TRIFOLIUM SPP. AND GEUM ROSSII-POLYGONUM BISTOITOIDES COMMUNITIES ON SLOPES, RIDGES, AND VALLEY BOTTOMS OF CARTER MOUNTAIN.

Elevation: 10300 feet SIZE: 5000 acres

MACode: Managed Area Name: Contained: M.USWYHP*13 WORLAND DISTRICT OFFICE N M.USWYHP*16 CODY RESOURCE AREA ?

More land: More protection: More management: TNC Involved: Y Management Comments: MONITOR TO INSURE THAT GRAZING DOES NOT HARM DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE OF PLANTS.

Protection Comments:

Owner: DESERET RANCHES Owner Comments: DESERET RANCHES IS FARM AND RANCH OPERATION RUN BY LOS CHURCH

General Comments: THALICTRUM ALPINUM IS ONE OF SIX TARGET SPECIES IN THE SURVEY OF THE COST-SHARE SURVEY OF THE ACEC.

Data Sensitivity: N Boundaries Drawn: Y Photos: Y Source Codes: U91JON01WYUS

Best Source: JONES, GEORGE. 1991. SURVEY OF PLANT SPECIES AND PLANT COMMUNITIES OF INTEREST IN THE CARTER MOUNTAIN AREA OF CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN. REPORT TO BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, WORLAND DISTRICT OFFICE, BY THE WYOMING NATURAL DIVERSITY DATABASE. UNPUBLISHED. Transcriber: 90-12-14 GPJ Mapper: Last Update: 91-01-11 GPJ Code: PDRANOM010*001*WY