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Summer 2006 Kelseya

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would like to make the information he has learned available so people make better choices when buying focus on plant materials and would like to reach more of the local market in Montana. As the demand and market VALLEY NURSERY for native plants increases, Valley cold hardy natives from the Helena Valley Nursery will be able to grow even more natives adapted to our climate. Clayton and his assistant for 15 by Patrick Plantenberg & Kathy Lloyd years, Sharon Teigen, will gladly propagate any of their native woody plant collections for sale. ing, and breeding. He acquires infor- With Clayton everything is an edu- mation by growing the plants. Clay- cational endeavor. He worked for the layton Berg is a slightly ton depends on open pollination, Forest Service in the 50’s as a smoke built 74-year-old with chance seedlings, and cross- jumper and for a while at the Rocky lotsC of experience and the opinions pollination. As he says, “Darwin was Mountain Lab in Corvallis. Clayton to go with it. An entomologist with a for real. The seed source or cutting was also a city-county sanitarian in minor in botany and horticulture source is important.” Over the years (Continued on page 7) from South Dakota State University in he has found some plants from the Brookings, Clayton has always been Belt Mountains to be hardier than interested in trees; whether fishing plants from the Continental Divide. along Montana rivers or out collect- Valley Nursery sells native and in- ing plants, trees always catch his troduced plants propagated from attention. Clayton’s collections to Sunrise Nurs- Clayton Berg, the “Plants Man,” ery in Billings, and they ship plants to has had Valley Nursery since the both coasts and Canada. Clayton has 1960’s when he bought an alfalfa many named varieties and has two field and started to grow plants in patented selections of juniper. His the area that is now his nursery. Val- ‘winter blue’ juniper is probably a J. ley Nursery, 10-acres in the Helena horizontalis X J. scopulorum cross, Valley, boasts the largest collection collected right in his nursery. His of cold hardy plants for the northern ‘blue creeper’ juniper was collected U.S., and grows and propagates na- between Helena and Glacier Park. tive plants from the northern U.S. as Some large nurseries are growing Val- well as introduced plants from all ley Nursery plant collections, includ- across Canada, northern Europe, and ing Monrovia Nursery in California, northern Asia. Valley Nursery has Bailey Nursery in Minnesota, and over 80 native woody plant collec- Douglas Nursery in Canby, Oregon. tions that have survived the Helena Clayton has had the opportunity to Valley climate for years and can be buy his own plants back for retail propagated for sale (see the plant sale at the nursery, which ensures list on page 7). the plants’ hardiness in the Montana Clayton is a grower—and not, as he climate. But Valley Nursery has had makes clear, just a peddler—who limited plant sales to MNPS members Clayton Berg, the Plants Man of Valley specializes in plant evaluation, test- and Montana nurseries. Clayton Nursery. photo: Patrick Plantenberg Kelseya President’s Platform Susan Winslow

April showers led to some very nice in places previously unknown to me— elected into office. There is still time May flowers in our area. Especially I find this plant incredible in its abil- to cast ballots, so please get your showy shrubs were American plum, ity to remain dormant for so many vote out. This will be the first for me golden currant, red osier dogwood, years and then suddenly, under fa- as president of the Society and I have chokecherry, and woods rose. The vorable conditions, the stored energy a tad bit of trepidation as the time silver buffaloberry was so early and reserves vigorously engage and the draws near. I’ve learned in my short nondescript that the fruit appeared result is a blinding pink patchwork on tenure that the Board and general as if by magic. A hard frost then pro- the uplands. Of course many native membership are forgiving, suppor- ceeded to nip many of these beau- plants compete valiantly for their tive, and very patient—thankfully. ties, and the anticipation of a good existence against seriously invasive Thanks in advance to the dedicated apple crop simply bruised and turned weed species and it is so dishearten- folks of the Clark Fork Chapter for a brown. Many of the early herbaceous ing to witness the struggle. The con- fun and educational weekend. standbys such as Hood’s phlox, bis- trol of weeds is a necessary evil pur- Also in order are big kudos to all cuitroot, star lily, and milkvetch sued by each of us in our own fash- the energetic state-wide organizers drew earnest eyes down for a close ion. and participants of the 55 scheduled inspection of these charming speci- The annual meeting, A Floral Ban- activities listed in the guide to sum- mens. I saw a stunning yellow display quet, is fast approaching so I encour- mer field trips. At the time of print- of either Physaria or Lesquerella age everyone to attend the event ing, more than 60% have been com- (distinguishable only by mature fruit) being held at Wall Creek in the Madi- pleted and probably thousands of while traveling through the harsh son Valley. One of the highlights of plants catalogued along the trail. conditions of the Pryor Mountain the summer meeting is Pat Planten- Anyway, take time to come to the Wildhorse Range. The Montana state berg’s report on the election results meeting, and have a great summer! flower, bitterroot, appeared locally and I’m anxious to learn who will be

Susan can be reached at P.O. Box 502, Bridger, MT 59014 406-668-9112 e-mail: [email protected]

MNPS ELECTIONS – NOT MATCHED Obviously, they can’t compete. Montana Audubon Releases and STARTING TO LAG Election results will be announced Wetlands Report: The MNPS Election Committee pro- and the $100 will be awarded at the Stream Development Puts vides this election update for our MNPS Annual Meeting, July 14-16, 2006, at the Wall Creek Wildlife Man- Montana Waters At Risk members on the two coasts of Mon- Adapted from Montana Audubon’s agement Area in the Gravelly Moun- tana who still want to vote before Magpie Muse, Spring 2006 the polls close. The Maka Flora Chap- tains. Keep the ballots coming! Montana’s streams and wetlands ter voter percentage is behind last Patrick Plantenberg are increasingly being filled and lost year’s winning number, making this to development, without the kind of the year for another chapter to win new members! WELCOME mitigation and restoration required the $100 prize for casting the largest The Montana Native Plant Society by the Clean Water Act, according to percentage of votes. Of course, Maka extends a warm welcome to the fol- a report released last fall by Montana Flora members who haven’t voted lowing new members: Audubon. can still vote. If they threw their pa- The Audubon study, Impacts of the per ballots away, they can obtain Artemisia Chapter: Mary Lou & 404 Permit Program on Wetlands and ballots on the MNPS website and rally Claude Mayes; Calypso Chapter: Waterways in Montana and Recom- at the end. Just log on to the website Kirsten Boyle, Kari Miller, Judith mendations for Program Improve- at www.umt.edu/mnps/ and find the Waring; Clark Fork Chapter: Lisa ment, looked at all of the stream– link to the 2006 election ballot. Carter, Tom Deveny, Betsy Griffing, and wetland-filling permits issued by Please fill out the ballot and e-mail it Pelah Hoty; Kelsey Chapter: Amy the Corps of Engineers in Montana to the MNPS Electoral College in Bulter, Sharon Teigen; Valley of from 1990-2002. The Corps approved Townsend at [email protected]. Flowers: Leslie Eddington, Lynette 99.8% of requests to fill or develop We do have one write-in candi- Kemp, Marianne Klein, Theresa wetlands, authorized degradation of date. More are expected as the Elec- Schrum; Eastern Montana: Walter almost 180 miles of streams and riv- tion Committee starts to count ab- Fertig, Vinita Shea. ers, and authorized filling almost 900 sentee ballots received from other Your participation and support are acres of wetlands, and more. The full states. important to us! Please contact your report is available at Montana Audu- Other organizations have not re- chapter representative with any bon or: www.mtaudubon.org sponded to our election challenge. ideas or suggestions you may have.

2 Kelseya Summer 2006 Spread a Little Bit of Love days in the spring of ’76 when I Is the Kelseya dying? feasted on them up at Lone Pine In the mid-70s while attending State Park, I rather imagine I have Naw, not this quarterly. The Kel- Flathead Valley Community College consumed thousands of these delec- seya is a vibrant and informative (FVCC) in Kalispell, I became inter- table delicacies. As with most plants, journal/newsletter about native ested in botany while most of my they are best when young and fresh. plants in Montana. I’m asking if your friends pursued forestry. They were Go ahead and pick a plant right patch of Kelseya uniflora is a vibrant more drawn to how to harvest old- alongside the trail and begin with the population. growth climax forests and replace succulent stem, then the leaves, and Sykes Ridge is the eastern escarp- them with fast-growing seral species lastly the flower. It can be a hilarious ment of the trap door uplift of East for a quick return on the investment. sight watching a friend with a glacier Pryor Mountain. One ascends Sykes Some of my friends scorned me for lily stuck between their lips, and Ridge on a rough four-wheel drive the tendency to fall to my knees to then see it disappear amid grunts of tract, all the while peering down more closely examine a flower while pleasure. over 1,500 feet of limestone cliffs they eyed centuries-old giants and Though the bulbs are most deli- into the canyon of the Bighorn River. calculated the board footage. cious, by leaving them in the ground At 6,200 feet elevation one comes to One fellow, I remember, chal- the plant will grow again. And while intriguing, mossy, green mounds ad- lenged me as to whether I was really eating them in the woods is the hering to the limestone, resembling learning anything. “Okay,” he spat, most fun, they can be care- green mold growing on graying “what’s the Latin for glacier lily?” I fully packed away and added cheese. For over three miles, as the suspect it was the only wildflower for to a salad at home for extra road parallels the cliff edge, these which he knew the Latin special flavor and color. mounds of Kelseya uniflora seem to name, and he must have Glacier lilies are a be everywhere. In April, as the snow thought it was a toughie, spring wildflower, but melts back, those who make the trek judging by the they can be found over are treated to the mounds having smirk on his face. the course of several turned rosy-pink with the tiniest of But when I months as the snowline blossoms. promptly and confi- recedes upslope. Fortu- Over the past three springs there dently replied, nately, they grow from val- have been few blossoms and many of “Erythronium grandi- ley floors as low as the lower the Kelseya uniflora cushions have florum,” he walked Clark Fork Valley at 2,200 feet turned from mossy, gray-green to away, perhaps convince I to subalpine terrain approaching brown, then black, and finally loose knew what I was doing, per- 8,000 feet. Because of this broad the foliage to reveal a skeleton of haps not, but it didn’t matter. I ecological latitude, Erythronium gnarled branches of the toughest was in love and my heart had been grandiflorum is among the most pro- wood. These cushion plants, which opened to a whole new world. lific spring plants in Montana. have endured untold years of My love for Montana’s native flora Thirty years ago I learned many of weather cycles, are now dying back. was fostered by Dr. Michael Britton, these plant facts from a man who In a belt transect 20 by 60 feet a professor at FVCC I came to ad- unselfishly shared his love for Mon- there were 39 Kelseya uniflora cush- mire and respect more than just tana’s native wildflowers. Nowadays, ions. Three were totally dead, 35 about any other person who had as I wander the mountains on glori- had dead branches, and only one was ever influenced my life. He was the ous spring days, or simply look at all green. There was no evidence of one who taught me the scientific pictures of glacier lilies in my disease. Sykes Ridge is miles down name for glacier lily, and a great favorite flower books (like wind from any source of air pollution deal more. Though I didn’t see Shannon Kimball and Pete Le- such as coal-fired generation plants. him much after leaving FVCC to take sica’s Wildflowers of Glacier Na- But the Pryors have been experienc- a job with the Forest Service that he tional Park, or Wayne Phillips’ North- ing serve drought. helped arrange, I have never forgot- ern Rocky Mountain Wildflowers), I We are in the process of docu- ten him and the marvelous teacher gratefully recall Dr. Michael Britton’s menting this die-back. We have pho- and role model he was for me. Every enthusiasm. It was contagious. tos of Kelseya uniflora taken in 1972, time I see a glacier lily it conjures up If you suffer from a contagious love which we are comparing with photos his painstaking instruction in the con- for native plants, thank the one who taken this spring. The difference is servation and ecology of native infected you, then spread it around. obvious. There is also some die-back plants. “You know,” he once said, We could all stand to share a little of rock mat, Petrophyton caespito- “glacier lilies are edible, the whole bit of love, even for small beauties sum, but it is not as severe as with plant, from the thick, juicy bulbs to like the glacier lily. Kelseya uniflora. the brilliant yellow petals.” Dennis Nicholls Is this die-back of Kelseya uniflora Erythronium grandiflorum was the happening elsewhere in Montana and first Montana plant I ever put in my mouth, and since those field trip Glacier Lily illustrated by Debbie McNiel (Continued on page 4)

Kelseya Summer 2006 3 Available from the Flathead Chapter: a packet of in- Available from MNPS formation about gardening with Flathead Valley native plants. The packet can be mailed to you for $3.50. The third edition of the Source Guide for Native Contact Tara Carolin at 334 North Many Lakes Drive, Plants of Montana is still available. The cost is $6.00. Kalispell, MT 59901. Send a check made out to MNPS to: MNPS Publications, Available from the Kelsey Chapter: a packet of infor- 1270 Lower Sweet Grass Road, Big Timber, MT 59011. mation on landscaping with natives in the Helena area. The cost will cover postage. The guide lists 55 sources The packet will be mailed to you for $3.50. Contact for over 500 species of trees, shrubs, forbs and grasses. Kathy at 449-6586 or e-mail: [email protected]. to

This edition has e-mail and website addresses for many order. sources and a handy common name index. The guide is Available from the Valley of Flowers Chapter: a book- a must for home landscapers, native plant gardeners let of information on landscaping with natives in the and those involved in restoration projects. The Source Bozeman, Livingston, and Big Timber areas. The booklet Guide will include an insert with recent updates for will be mailed to you for $6.50. Contact Denise Mont- each source. Contact information for several new gomery at 586-0156 or e-mail: nmontgom- sources is included but their plants are not listed. If [email protected] to order. you already purchased a Guide, you can find the up- Visit the MNPS website at www.umt.edu/mnps to date on the website or send a SASE to MNPS Publica- download in pdf format Weeds Listed as Noxious by tions (see address above). Montana Counties, a list of weeds that are targeted by Available free from MNPS Publications: MNPS member- each county; Guidelines for Selecting Horticultural ship brochures, Plant Collection Guidelines for Teachers Plant Material for Montana, voluntary guidelines by brochures, and Echinacea Cultivation Information. Also MNPS and the Montana Nursery and Landscape Associa- available are additional copies of Plants Collected in tion; and Lewis & Clark Plants Collected Elsewhere Montana During the Lewis & Clark Expedition. Please That Occur in Montana, an inclusive list of Lewis & send a SASE to the address above to receive any of Clark plants found in the state. these publications.

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Wyoming? This summer while you are enjoying clamber- Woad Warriors ing over limestone ridges, take note of the kelseya. Is it Strike Again healthy, or is it also dying back? Send me a brief note explaining what you have ob- The first dyer's woad pull on May 23rd was a tremen- served. Is the kelseya population healthy or not? Esti- dous success! A group of 20-some volunteers and staff mate what percent of the cushions have dead branches gathered at the base of Missoula’s Mt. Sentinel in the and the percent of cushions that are totally dead. Has early evening, and after discussing the history and biol- the precipitation in the vicinity been scanty or closer to ogy of dyer's woad in Montana, and a crash course in normal? Any such information will be appreciated. identification for the 10 or so folks who had never at- Please send your information to: Clayton McCracken, tended the pull before, we headed up the hill. [email protected], or mail to 3227 Country Club Cir- We combed the lower half of the mountain, looking cle, Billings, MT 59102. carefully for dastardly woads amongst the balsamroot, Clayton McCracken bunchgrasses, spring chickweed, penstemons of various hues, paintbrushes, and lupines. The good news: we found only about 210 plants! Last year at this time we found close to 1,000. In case we missed some (and we always do the first time around), we are repeating the event on June 6 and June 20— persistence pays off! Monica Pokorny, president of the Valley of Flowers Chapter who also serves as the statewide woad task force coordinator, was there to keep us on task—thanks Monica! And thanks to Kelly Chadwick and Peter Lesica, co-vice presidents of the Clark Fork Chapter, who do this pull every single year (for the past 15 years). GO, Woad Warriors! Join us next time! Marilyn Marler

Kelseya uniflora mats on a limestone cliff. Photo: Drake Barton

4 Kelseya Summer 2006 Can Botanists Be Bought? pastures. Morton Elrod had vis- various smelter companies when- Professor Joesph W. Blankin- ited and examined the impacted ever they were sued for damage ship: “Professional Witness” areas during the summers of resulting from fume emissions. 1905 and 1906, and photo- Professor Blankinship conceived While researching the early graphed the damage. I don’t of himself as a scientist ahead of years of University of Montana’s know exactly what Elrod’s testi- his time. He had discovered the Professor of Biology, Dr. Morton mony was, but it was enough to disease responsible for the dam- J. Elrod, I came across some in- anger the copper company, who age to vegetation in the Deer teresting information about an- managed to get Elrod dismissed Lodge Valley: The ‘drying up dis- other early-day Professor of Bot- from his job at UM. ease’ he termed it.” And that was any from Montana State Univer- Dr. Donald MacMillan, a Uni- his testimony! sity, Dr. Joseph W. Blankinship. versity of Montana history gradu- Admittedly all plant biologists Both of these professors were ate student and student of K. aren’t perfect, never have and active field biologists during the Ross Toole, wrote a 400-page never will be, but Professor turn of the 20th Century. They PhD dissertation on this smelter Blankinship seemed to have knew one another, and both fume court case. And it is on erred on the side of extreme im- knew of biology field work the page 154 of this thesis that Dr. perfection. There was no tenure other was engaged in. Blankinship’s name surfaces. He system in place on Montana cam- When he first arrived at Mis- had been recruited by the Ana- puses, and Elrod was placed on soula in 1897 Professor Elrod conda Copper Company to testify the hit list for removal for his ac- taught both botany and zoology; in this court case. His tions, along with a UM Professor he is well known as the founder “assignment” was to rebut the of Chemistry who also re- of UM’s Flathead Lake Biological evidence provided by other sci- searched the fume problems. Station in 1899, and was active entists hired by the farmers, in- However, in the summer of 1908 in starting Glacier Park’s first cluding Elrod, that the smelter a massive out-pouring of support Naturalist Guide Program. Pro- gas fumigations had, and were, for Morton Elrod was generated fessor Blankinship was more nar- causing lethal damage to crop by alumni and campus students rowly focused in the plant sci- and native range plants, and in- who presented signed petitions ences. One of the most histori- jury to farm animals. And he to Governor Norris and UM Presi- cally important publications deal- gladly did so. Dr. MacMillan dent Duniway for Elrod’s rein- ing with Montana botany was wrote, quoting State Attorney statement. It worked! Elrod re- written by Blankinship, A century General George Wickersham mained on the job, but the re- of botanical exploration in Mon- from a 1911 letter, “One of the cords I’ve examined don’t show tana, 1805-1905: collectors, her- most pathetic representatives of that Elrod ever spoke publicly baria and bioliography. This was academia and professionalism to again about the toxic smelter published in the first issue of the testify in the Bliss case was a fumes. So really, the copper “Montana Agricultural College puffed-up, self-important profes- company won, since truth was Science Studies Series: Botany,” sor from the Agricultural College silenced. I have no information November 1904. of Bozeman. Professor Joseph on how Professor Blankinship’s I discovered that in the spring Blankinship testified for the reputation survived into the fu- of 1908, Morton Elrod’s name Amalgamated. Thereafter he be- ture. Perhaps some newsletter had been deleted from the fac- came ‘a well-known professional readers can fill me in. ulty list of professors elected for witness’ appearing constantly for Jim Habeck rehire for the fall term of 1908. He had been fired by the Mon- tana Board of Education! Further research led me to discover that his dismissal was related to his having given courtroom testimony about cropland damage caused by the Washoe Copper Smelter fumes. Deer Lodge Val- ley farmers and ranchers had sued the copper company, based in Butte, for losses they suffered from the poisonous, toxic fumes that drifted over their fields and

Kelseya Summer 2006 5 What’s a tree to do? Interactions between nut- Figure 1. Limber pine crackers, squirrels, and bird cone from the Rocky -dispersed pines Mountains/Sierra Ne- This article is reprinted with permis- vada, where pine squir- sion of the author from Castilleja Vol. rels are present. Figure 25, No. 1. 2. Limber pine cone from the Great Basin, Seed dispersal strategies are an im- where pine squirrels portant facet of the natural histories are absent. of plants. Most plants benefit from seed dispersal by having their seeds Photos: Adam Siepielski moved from the immediate vicinity of 2. the parent plant, thereby reducing the chances of seed predation and competition with their siblings, among year from limber pine and other coni- other benefits. Limber pine (Pinus fers. Unlike nutcrackers, however, 1. flexilis) is among the 20 pine species squirrels are a seed predator, not a that rely on birds, namely Clark’s nut- seed disperser—the pines do not bene- compare these cones to limber pine crackers (Nucifraga columbiana), to fit from having their cones harvested from throughout the Rockies or Sierra disperse their seeds. Unlike most by squirrels. Because squirrels do not Nevada where squirrels are present, pines, bird-dispersed pines lack the provide a benefit like nutcrackers, you will notice they are very different wings on the seeds that slow their this creates a conflict of interest (see above). Cones in the Great Basin descent to the ground allowing them where both nutcrackers and squirrels are much smaller, with thinner cone to be dispersed by wind. If you watch coexist with these conifers. scales, than cones in the Rockies or in a group of nutcrackers in the fall, you Trees that minimize cone harvest by the Sierra Nevada, but even though will see them using their bills to shred pine squirrels while maximizing seed the cones are smaller they have twice the tough cone scales or reaching be- harvest by nutcrackers will produce as many seeds. This makes sense tween open cone scales of limber pine the most seedlings. These trees have when we consider the preferences of to remove the seeds. During the fall a reproductive advantage and there- squirrels (as seed predators) and nut- an individual nutcracker will bury up fore come to represent more and crackers (as seed dispersers), and is a to an estimated 98,000 seeds a year! more of future generations. This is wonderful example of how natural Nutcrackers rely on these seeds simply how natural selection causes selection influences conifer cone throughout the winter and spring and populations to evolve over time. One structure. into early summer as a resource for of the most important functions of These patterns are also replicated themselves and their offspring. How- conifer cones is to protect seeds, so in another related bird-dispersed ever, many buried seeds are not re- what you might expect is where pine pine, whitebark pine (Pinus albicau- trieved by nutcrackers and some may squirrels occur, seeds are well de- lis), which occurs throughout the germinate into new trees before be- fended by larger cones. Where pine Rockies and Sierra Nevada, and fur- ginning the cycle anew. squirrels are absent, such well- ther supports the hypothesis that The interaction between nutcrack- defended seeds are not necessary. these pines are evolving in response ers and limber pine is an example of Thus, in regions where pines squirrels to the balance of natural selection mutualism. Both nutcrackers and the are absent we expect trees that in- exerted between nutcrackers and trees benefit from the interaction. vest less in seed defenses should be pine squirrels. Trees provide nutcrackers with a nu- more attractive to nutcrackers and This work highlights the importance tritious food while the nutcrackers have more of their seeds dispersed. of taking a broad perspective on how disperse the seeds. But there are Over time, these trees that are pro- organisms interact in nature. It also costs. Many of the seeds are eaten, ducing more seeds and allocating less emphasizes why protection of numer- and in some years no cones are pro- to defenses should increase in the ous areas is important, because inter- duced. Hence the interaction is very population. I have measured tree actions between organisms do not dynamic. Nutcrackers, however, are preferences of both pine squirrels and occur in the same way in every loca- not the only animals that eat the nutcrackers, which is a way to meas- tion, and this diversity of interaction seeds of limber pine. In fact, the most ure natural selection exerted by these is as important to conservation as are important seed predator of limber animals, and not surprisingly, they the species themselves. pine is likely the pine squirrel strongly prefer to forage on trees with Adam Siepielski (Tamiasciurus spp.), which is common less-defended cones. Adam M. Siepielski is a PhD candidate to many of the coniferous areas If you look at limber pine cones in the Department of Zoology and throughout the Rockies and Sierra from mountain ranges in the Great Physiology at the University of Wyo- Nevada. Like nutcrackers, squirrels Basin where squirrels have been ab- ming. E-mail: [email protected] remove large numbers of seeds each sent for 10,000 or more years, and

6 Kelseya Summer 2006 Cold Hardy Trees and Shrubs Available at Valley Nursery TREES Cercocarpus montanus Birch-leaf mountain mahogany Abies lasiocarpa Subalpine fir Chrysothamnus nauseosus Common rabbitbrush Acer glabrum Rocky Mountain maple Clematis columbiana Columbia clematis Acer negundo Boxelder Clematis ligusticifolia Western virgins-bower Betula papyrifera Paper birch Cornus stolonifera Red osier dogwood Fraxinus pennsylvanica Green ash Crataegus columbiana Columbia hawthorn Juniperus scopulorum Rocky Mountain juniper Crataegus douglasii Black hawthorn Larix occidentalis Western larch Elaeagnus commutata Silverberry Picea engelmannii Engelmann spruce Juniperus communis Common juniper Picea glauca White spruce Juniperus horizontalis Creeping juniper Pinus albicaulis Whitebark pine Leptodactylon pungens Prickly phlox Pinus contorta Lodgepole pine Lonicera involucrata Twin-berry honeysuckle Pinus flexilis Limber pine Philadelphus lewisii Mockorange Pinus ponderosa Ponderosa pine Physocarpus malvaceus Mallow ninebark Populus acuminata Lanceleaf cottonwood Potentilla fruticosa Shrubby cinquefoil Populus angustifolia Narrowleaf cottonwood Prunus pensylvanica Pin cherry Populus deltoides Plains cottonwood Prunus pumila Sand cherry Populus tremuloides Quaking aspen Prunus virginiana Common chokecherry Populus trichocarpa Black cottonwood Rhus glabra Smooth sumac Prunus americana American plum Rhus trilobata Skunkbush sumac Pseudotsuga menziesii Douglas-fir Ribes aureum Golden currant Quercus macrocarpa Bur oak Ribes cereum Wax (squaw) currant Salix amygdaloides Peachleaf willow Rosa woodsii Wood’s rose Sorbus scopulina Mountain ash Rubus parviflorus Thimbleberry Sorbus sitchensis Sitka mountain ash Rubus idaeus Red raspberry Ulmus Americana American elm Salix arctica Arctic willow Salix exigua Sandbar willow Sambucus cerulea SHRUBS Blue elderberry Sambucus racemosa Alnus incana Mountain alder Red elderberry Shepherdia argentea Amelanchier alnifolia Western serviceberry Thorny buffaloberry Shepherdia canadensis Amorpha canescens Lead plant Russet buffaloberry Symphoricarpos albus Arctostaphylos uva ursi Kinnikinnick Common snowberry Symphoricarpos occidentalis Artemisia cana Silver sage Western snowberry Viburnum lentago Artemisia frigida Fringed sagewort Nannyberry Viburnum opulus (trilobum) Artemisia tridentata Big sagebrush Highbush cranberry Vitis riparia Berberis (Mahonia) repens Oregon-grape Riverbank grape Betula glandulosa Bog birch Yucca glauca Yucca Cercocarpus ledifolius Curl-leaf mountain mahogany

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Helena. During his tenure he was able to get the sewage The Clark Fork Chapter held its annual native plant sale out of Helena streams, an accomplishment of which he is at the Missoula Farmer's Market on May 20th. We offered proud. He is an avid reader, but does not claim to be self over 1,100 plants of about 60 species, including perennial -taught when it comes to plant propagation. “That would favorites (pun intended!) such as Lewisia rediviva, Anten- be too restrictive,” Clayton says. Clayton has had the naria rosea, Oenothera flava, and Penstemon wilcoxii, opportunity to associate with many experts in plant along with some novelties like Lonicera ciliata, Townsen- growing (Porter, Skinner, Dropmore, Kerr, Sutherland, dia spathulata, and Castilleja miniata. We received an en- Simonette, Cummings, Holliday, Moran), and is a keeper thusiastic welcome from the public and sold out of most of their plant materials. items, making over $1,700 for the chapter. A new event Clayton and Sharon took part in the Native Plant Land- this year was the pre-sale labeling, wine, and dessert scaping Exhibition co-sponsored by the Kelsey Chapter in party. Members gathered to order and label every speci- April, and generously donated native plants to sell as a men. This effort proved to be a great time saver and sug- chapter fundraiser. Many thanks! gested that there should be a members-only plant sale Above is a list of the native woody plant collections in before the big day. Thanks to everyone for their help, es- stock at Valley Nursery. For more information and to or- pecially Ginny DeNeve and Barbara Hixon for three der plants for fall 2006 or spring 2007 delivery, contact months of plant care, Sheila Morrison for being the propa- Clayton or Sharon at Valley Nursery, 4303 Frontage Road, gator extraordinaire, Peter Lesica for plants and knowl- P.O. Box 4845, Helena, MT 59604 or call 458-3992. edge, and Marilyn Marler for affording us greenhouse space.

7 Kelseya Summer 2006 CALENDAR Please remember to leave pets Research Ecologist with the Forest Ser- tunities to photograph or illustrate plants, at home during MNPS field trips. vice, will give a full day tour of the latest or get ideas for the contest. Entries are in whitebark pine restoration techniques due by July 31. For more information Artemisia chapter on Beaver Ridge in the Clearwater Na- about the contest, call Linh Hoang at 270- For a schedule of Artemisia Chapter tional Forest just outside of Powell, 7533 or 758-5331, or check the Flathead events or to get your questions answered, Idaho. All interested should meet at the Chapter events on the MNPS website. please call Dwayne at 248-3171. Missoula Fire Lab (5775 Hwy. 10 West All trips are free and open to the public. near the smokejumper base) at 9:30 a.m. Please contact the leader if sign-up is re- Calypso chapter with a return time around 4:00 p.m. Bring quested. Bring food, water, raingear, and Call Sheila Thompson at 846-1855 or a lunch to eat at the Beaver Ridge lookout a hand lens if you have one. Please leave Debbie Mueller at 782-6651 for times and with fantastic views of the Bitterroot your dogs at home. details. Crest. You must make a reservation with Every Tuesday, June 13—August 29 Thursday, July 13, 6:00 p.m. Bob (329-4846) before August 24th, be- “Volunteer opportunity at the Glacier “Cabbage Gulch Walk.” Meet at the cause this field trip has a maximum of 12 National Park Nursery.” 9:00-4:30 p.m. Rocker Conoco truck stop at 6:00 p.m. people. Call Bob if you have any other (come and leave as you choose). Help The drive is about a half-hour west of questions. If you get a voice mail be sure with seeding, transplanting, weeding, and Butte. The old logging road is on a north- to leave a detailed message complete with cleaning. Those who are interested may facing shrubby slope; easy walking. This your phone number. also help with data management, or work is an area that suffered devegetation from on a particular research project. Bring a smelting contamination during the active Eastern Montana lunch, your favorite work gloves, and mining days. The recovery is surprising For more information about Eastern Mon- clothes that can tolerate dirt. Meet at the and lovely. For info call Kriss Douglass tana events call Wayne Phillips at 453- Native Plant Nursery at Glacier National 782-9060, or Debbie Mueller 782-6651. 0648. Park. Contact Joyce Lapp at 888-7817 for Saturday, July 29, 8:00 a.m. Sunday-Tuesday, July 9-11 details. RSVP appreciated. Harold Johns, retired Extension Agent, “Alpine Wildflowers of the Beartooth Saturday, July 8 will lead a trip to the “Lookout on Red Plateau” with botanist John Campbell. “Weed pull at a Rare Plant Site in the Mountain and Beyond.” Meet at the This seminar is offered by the Yellow- Swan Valley (Grindelia howellii - gum- intersection of Continental Drive and the stone Institute and involves a fee. For weed).” Help pull weeds within and Old Pipestone Highway just south of additional information visit: around rare plant exclosures near Holland Butte. The hike is easy to moderate, on a www.yellowstoneassociation.org or call Lake. Bring lunch, potluck item to share, well-defined trail and not too far. We’ll 307-344-2294 to register. and gloves. Meet at Swan Lake Ranger traverse from the upper montane zone Saturday-Monday, July 22-24 Station in Bigfork to carpool at 8:30 a.m. into sub-alpine. We should see lots of “Alpine Ecology in the Beartooths” with or at Holland Lake Picnic Area at 10:00 flowers and incredible views. For mammologist and tracker Jim Halfpenny. a.m. Contact Linh Hoang for details (270 information call Harold Johns at 782- This seminar is offered by the Yellow- -7533 or 758-5331). 8680. Plan for at least half a day; bring stone Institute and involves a fee. For Wednesday, July 12, 6:00 p.m. water and food! additional information visit: “Trail of the Cedars in Glacier National www.yellowstoneassociation.org or call Park.” Tara Carolin, Glacier National

307-344-2294 to register. Park ecologist, will lead an easy 1 to 2 Clark Fork Chapter Saturday-Monday, August 19-21 mile walk through one of the oldest forest Saturday, August 19, 9:00 a.m. “Wild Edible Plants and Medicinal stands in the park, a moist cedar-devil’s “Five Valleys Land Trust/Native Plant Herbs” with herbalist Robyn Klein. This club forest along Avalanche Creek. Meet Society Primm’s Meadow Trip.” Primm’s seminar is offered by the Yellowstone at the West Glacier Post Office at 6:00 Meadows is 112 acres of ancient, well- Institute and involves a fee. For additional p.m. and we will carpool to the trailhead. spaced ponderosa pine forest, which is information visit: Contact Tara Carolin at 888-7919 for de- now protected as a result of the signing of www.yellowstoneassociation.org or call tails. a conservation easement between Plum 307-344-2294 to register. Saturday, August 5 Creek Timber Company and Five Valleys Friday-Sunday, September 1-3 “Lake Mountain.” Hike to the top of Lake Land Trust. Come enjoy a day at Primm’s “Whitebark Pine, Nutcrackers, Bears and Mountain, in the Whitefish range, for a Meadows among the 500 years old pines, Squirrels: the Story of a Keystone Spe- plethora of alpine splendor, including learning the ecology and history of the cies” with Sabine Mellman-Brown. This whitebark pine and subalpine larch. This area. There is a one-mile walk to the seminar is offered by the Yellowstone is a strenuous 3-mile (approx.) hike with meadows. Bring lunch and water, along Institute and involves a fee. For additional over 1500’ elevation gain. Meet at the with weather-appropriate gear, field information visit: Dire Wolf Pub on East Lakeshore Road in glasses, field guides, etc. We will meet www.yellowstoneassociation.org or call Whitefish at 8:00 a.m. or at the trailhead and carpool from the NE corner of the 307-344-2294 to register. at 10:00 a.m. Contact Rebecca Durham at Bonner Town Pump parking lot. Call 249-6352 for details, directions to trail- Grant for more details at 549-0755 or Flathead chapter head, and to sign up. Kelly at 258-5439. The Flathead Chapter is sponsoring a Saturday, September 9, 9:30 a.m. wildflower art and photo contest this sum- “High Mountain Ecosystems and the mer. All of the field trips are good oppor- Plight of Whitebark Pine.” Bob Keane, a (Continued on page 9)

8 Kelseya Spring 2006 CALENDAR ...Calendar (Continued from page 8) early in the morning and be on the river 406-827-4078. about 10 hours. To participate call Re- Saturday, July 1 Kelsey chapter becca Kallevig at 488-5455; e-mail: “Making Wild Herbal Medicines” with [email protected] Barbara St. Dennis. This course is offered For more information about Kelsey Chap- Saturday, September 16, 12:00 by the Glacier Institute and involves a fee. ter programs and events, call Kathy at 449 All Maka Flora members and guests meet For a full course description visit -6586. at the Comertown Park at noon. We will www.glacierinstitute.org or call 406-755- Tuesday, July 18, 7:00 p.m. explore the geography, flora, and fauna of 1211 to register. “Bompart Hill” hike. Please call Prickly the prairie potholes in the Comertown Friday-Saturday, July 7-8 Pear Land Trust at 406-442-0490 for in- area. The hiking is easy to moderate. We “Plants of the Lewis and Clark Expedi- formation. will have a potluck picnic at the park after tion” with author Wayne Phillips. This Saturday, July 29, 8:00-12 a.m. the hike. For more information call Re- course is offered by the Glacier Institute “Wild Edible Plants Workshop.” Meet at becca Kallevig at 488-5455; e-mail: and involves a fee. For a full course de- the Covenant United Methodist Church at [email protected] scription visit www.glacierinstitute.org or 2330 Broadway in Helena for the third of call 406-755-1211 to register. our edible plant hikes on wild berries. Sunday, July 30 Call Patrick at 266-5265 for details. Valley of flowers “Wildflowers Wanderings at Logan Pass” Tuesday, August 15, 7:00 p.m. For more information contact Monica with Janet Paul Bones. This course is of- “North Hills” hike. Please call Prickly Pokorny at 763-4109. fered by the Glacier Institute and involves Pear Land Trust at 406-442-0490 for in- Thursday nights, May 25 - end of Au- a fee. For a full course description visit formation. gust, 7:00 p.m. www.glacierinstitute.org or call 406-755- Saturday, August 19, 5:00-8 p.m. “Wildflower walks at Lewis and Clark 1211 to register. “Wild Edible Plants Workshop.” Meet at Caverns State Park.” Tom Forwood, the Tuesday, August 1 the Covenant United Methodist Church at Naturalist at Lewis and Clark Caverns “Noxious Weeds: Invaders in our 2330 Broadway in Helena for the grand State Park, will hold wildflower walks at Woods.” This course is offered by the finale wild plant potluck. Bring your own the park focusing on different trails Glacier Institute and involves a fee. For a table service and a wild plant dish to weekly to try to cover the changing sea- full course description visit share. Call Patrick at 266-5265 for details. sons of the flowers in the park. The park www.glacierinstitute.org or call 406-755- Friday, September 15, 6:00 p.m. is over 3000 acres with many different 1211 to register. “Annual Potluck Planning Session” at ecosystems represented allowing for a Wednesday-Thursday, August 2-3 Kathy and Drake’s. Bring a dish to share wide variety of flora. Meet in the main “Native Plant Landscapes: Collection, and your own table service. We will begin parking area in the campground. For more Cultivation, and Creation” with Joyce discussion of the 2007 Annual Meeting. information, contact TJFish- Lapp. This course is offered by the Gla- Call 449-6586 for details and directions. [email protected] or call (406) 287-3541. cier Institute and involves a fee. For a full Tuesday, September 19, 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 7 and Saturday, July 8 course description visit “Hobbes Hill Trail” hike. Please call “Emerson’s Garden and Home Tour” of www.glacierinstitute.org or call 406-755- Prickly Pear Land Trust at 406-442-0490 five Gallatin Valley gardens, including 1211 to register. for information. urban, rural, and three “architecturally Thursday, August 31 significant homes.” This year’s gardens “Edible and Practical Plants: Berries, Maka flora chapter include an herb knot garden, a rose garden, xeriscape, and native plantings. Con- Bark, Roots, and Shoots” with the Glacier For information about the Maka Flora tact Ellen Ortiz at Beall Park Art Center Institute staff. This course is offered by Chapter or events call Rebecca Kallevig for more information, 586-3970. the Glacier Institute and involves a fee. at 488-5455. Saturday-Monday, July 22-24 For a full course description visit Sunday, July 23, 10:00 a.m. “Medicinal Plants of the Mountains,” www.glacierinstitute.org or call 406-755- All Maka Flora members and guests meet Battleridge Campground, Gallatin Na- 1211 to register. at the West Side Cenex in Wolf Point at tional Forest (option of receiving MSU 1 Saturday-Sunday, September 16-17 10:00 a.m. We will caravan and carpool cr. PS 280-02) with instructor Robyn “Fall Mushroom Foray” with Larry Ev- about 10 miles south of the Missouri. The Klein. Fees are in the process of being set. ans. This course is offered by the Glacier hike is in a public land area that includes Enthusiasm for medicinal plants is conta- Institute and involves a fee. For a full the Hell Creek geological formation. This gious in this complimentary study of the course description visit field trip will be similar to the June field medicinal mountain flora of Montana. www.glacierinstitute.org or call 406-755- trip – be prepared for a rigorous hike. For Explore the uses of valerian, sweetroot, 1211 to register. more information call Rebecca Kallevig Angelica, self heal, and dozens more spe- at 488-5455; e-mail: home- cies during the best month in Montana. [email protected] Expect minimal hiking of up to 2 miles a August day and group camping. For details, con- To be scheduled in arrangement with tact Robyn Klein at [email protected] Maka Flora members. We will canoe the

Yellowstone from Intake to Savage. Most attendees will camp at Intake the night Western Montana before the event. We will begin the float For information about activities in western Montana, call Erich Pfalzer at

Kelseya Spring 2006 9 to see lush high-elevation grasslands Annual Meeting Field Trips Silver Bow Creek Restoration as well as alpine cushion plant com- Alpine and subalpine environments munities. It will be a two-mile hike The evening of May 18th Rich support some of the most spectacular (one way) on an old mining road with Prodgers led a trip to see results of wildflower displays in Montana. The an elevation gain of about 1,000 restoration of Silver Bow Creek. Not flowering season is compressed into feet. Kevin Suzuki is a long-time more than 10 years ago the creek ran just a few weeks—everything blooms MNPS member and has worked in re- through 100 years of accumulated at once. In addition, the rugged to- source management for the Madison mine waste material. We looked at pography can provide different habi- District of Beaverhead-Deerlodge the most recent stretch of newly tats with very different assemblages National Forest for 20 years. cleaned, meandering creek and of wildflowers over short distances. Gravelly Ridge Road Bicycle Trip. floodplain, and two upstream sec- You can see a lot above timberline, Mountain bike along the crest of the tions. Contaminated material has both on the horizon and at your feet. Gravelly Range from Black Butte been removed and replaced with Join members of the Clark Fork Guard Station to above Fault Lake, clean soil beginning at the area near Chapter for this year’s annual meet- stopping along the way for various Montana Street where smelting first ing in the Gravelly Range, and come wildflower displays. It will be 10 occurred over 100 years ago. Rich on one of the following hikes. Sign-up miles (one way) on a decent secon- has planted willows and other ripar- for Saturday field trips is limited to dary road. Steve Shelly is a botanist ian species at the streambank and a 16 people per trip (more for the bike for the U.S. Forest Service. Diane variety of grasses, forbs, and shrubs trip) and will be on a first-come ba- Hafeman has organized and led bicy- in the flood plain. The success is sis. cle trips for Bike Centennial. staggering, but Rich pointed out sev- Saturday Field Trips Monument Hill is one of the highest eral kinds of ‘failures’ which can be Big Horn Mtn. is one of the higher points on the main Gravelly Ridge used as learning measures for the peaks in the Gravellys with spectacu- with great views of surrounding ar- downstream clean-up. Rabbitsfoot lar limestone cliffs on most sides. eas. See alpine wildflowers of the locoweed, longleaf phlox, deer tre- Expect to see lush alpine grasslands, drier grasslands on the way up and foil, rabbitbrush, and sagebrush are wet meadows, and moist cliffs. The moist grasslands on the way back in a all doing well. Along the streambank whole hike will be above treeline. It north-facing basin. A two-mile round water birch now grows along with will be about five miles (round trip) trip with 800-feet elevation gain. Booth’s and Geyer’s willows. cross-country. Peter Lesica has done Then drive back over Monument The experimental areas where a fair amount of hiking above Ridge and Clover Meadows. Steve plantings have occurred are adjacent treeline in southwest Montana and Cooper conducted a vegetation study to ‘natural’ vegetation on the upper knows most of the flowers. of this area, and Drake Barton has to benches. The vegetation is different Black Butte at 10,545 feet is the know his plants because he’s always but the transitions look natural. Rich highest peak in the Gravellys and the photographing them. has done an amazing job and seems most unusual because it’s volcanic Sunday Field Trips to still be enjoying the project! rather than sedimentary. Hikers If you’re going west on Sunday Kriss Snyder Douglass should see numerous alpine species. morning, Piedmont Swamp is just off The four to five mile round trip with I-90 near Whitehall. If you’re going an elevation gain of 1,300 feet will back toward Bozeman or east, you Webmaster Needed! have several steep ascents, although may want to visit Beartrap Canyon. nothing technical. Dave Hanna fre- Beartrap Canyon is one of only a few The Montana Native Plant Society quently botanizes in the alpine and low-elevation designated wilderness needs a new webmaster. Marilyn climbs steep slopes just for fun. areas in Montana. Check out the Marler has generously donated her Black Butte Park. There are differ- wildflowers of sagebrush grasslands time and talents for too many years, ent wildflowers in the spruce-fir is- and mountain mahogany woodlands and leaves as legacy an attractive lands than in the alpine grasslands. on the steep canyon slopes. Matt and well established website. We are See them all on this stroll at the base Lavin is curator of the herbarium at looking for someone who has an in- of Black Butte. Probably one or two Montana State University. terest in taking over website duties miles with only a few hundred feet of Piedmont Swamp is a spectacular or, failing that best of all possible elevation gain. Wayne Phillips alkaline wetland along the Jefferson worlds, we are looking for ideas, teaches botany courses for the Yel- River just east of Whitehall. Several such as cooperating with another lowstone Institute and knows lots of species of rare plants occur here in- organization's webmaster, or volun- stories about the plants. cluding the federally listed orchid, teers that are non-members. The Cave Mountain is a large ridge up to Spiranthes diluvialis and our annual website is an important public face 9,800 feet in elevation and has been paintbrush, Castilleja exilis. Pete for the Society and is frequently vis- designated a Research Natural Area Husby is biologist for the Natural ited by members and non-members. by the U.S. Forest Service. It is one Resources Conservation Service and If you have an idea or would like to of the few areas of the Gravellys author of a book on identifying wet- volunteer, contact President Susan where there has been no livestock land plants. Winslow at [email protected] or grazing in the past 30 years. Expect Peter Lesica call 406-668-9112.

10 Kelseya Summer 2006 MNPS Chapters & the Areas They Serve:

ARTEMISIA CHAPTER - Yellowstone and Carbon Counties; southeastern/south-central Montana CALYPSO CHAPTER - Beaverhead, Madison, Deer Lodge, and Silver Bow Counties; southwestern Montana CLARK FORK CHAPTER - Lake, Mineral, Missoula, Powell, and Ravalli Counties FLATHEAD CHAPTER - Flathead and Lake Counties plus Glacier National Park KELSEY CHAPTER - Lewis & Clark, Jefferson, and Broadwater Counties MAKA FLORA CHAPTER - Richland, Roosevelt, McCone, Sheridan, and Daniels Counties VALLEY OF FLOWERS CHAPTER - Gallatin, Park, and Sweet Grass Counties plus Yellowstone National Park

All MNPS chapters welcome members from areas other than those indicated. We’ve listed counties just to give you some idea of what part of the state is served by each chapter. Watch for meeting announcements in your local news- paper. Ten paid members are required for a chapter to be eligible for acceptance in MNPS.

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