NOTEWORTHY COLLECTIONS

2004·2.7 MB·English

by  Martin J Lenz

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Madrono, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 331-333, 2004
NOTEWORTHY COLLECTIONS
California
Parnassia cirrata Piper (SAXIFRAGACEAE). Shasta Colorado
Co., North Fork ofShotgun Creek, approximately 5.9 km
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meadow in rocky serpentine soil. Associated species in- Street, [Greeley], 40°25'41"N, 104°45'15"W, 25 Sep 2003,
clude Rhododendron occidentale, Darlingtonia californi- J. Crasser 373 (GREE); Weld Co., Elk Lake, located on
ca, Chamaecyparus lawsoniana, Tofieldia glutinosa, Pi- the corner of 35th Ave and [US] Highway 34, Greeley,
nus ponderosa, Pinus lambertiana, Lilium pardalinum, 40°23'N, 104°44'W, 22 Sep 2002, R. Wallace 10(GREE);
and Carex gigas. Chicken Hawk Hill USGS 7.5' quad, El Paso Co., Little Turkey Cr. Drainage, in shallow pond
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(JEPS, CHSC) Maentz 00-169 (COCO, COLO); Boulder Co., City of
Previous knowledge. Although the originaldescription Louisville, Coal Creek Golf Course, floating in shallow
oCafliP.forcniiraraftlaor(aPsip(eJreps1o89n9,19E2r5,ytAheama7n(u1)a:l1o28f)thaendfloewaerrl-y awantderabionutthe30m0idmdleeasotfCofoatlheCrgeoelkf,cnoourrtsheocfluDiblhloounseRoaandd
ing plants of California, University of California Press, parking lot, 25 Sep 2001, W. F. Jennings 1366 (GREE).
Berkeley, CA; Munz 1959, A Californiaflora. University Previous knowledge. This species is becoming sporad-
ionftChaeliSfaocrrniaamePnrteoss.RiBveerrkedlreayi,nagCeA,)monorteerietceanstolcictuerrartiunrge Riciavlelry aesntdabilnisOhnetdariino,mCaannyadsat.atWesesetastofotfhethMeisMsiissssiispspiippiit
(Hickman 1993, The Jepson manual: higher plants of is known from Texas, Arizona (where it is a noxious
weed), California, and possibly Washington (Kartesz and
California, University of California Press, University of
California Press, Berkeley, CA; CNPS 2003, California Meacham 1999, Synthesis of the North American flora.
Native Plant Society, Inventory of rare and endangered Version 1.0 [compactdisc]. NorthCarolinaBotanicalGar-
plants (online edition, v6-3). Rare Plant Scientific Ad- den, Chapel Hill, NC).
visory Committee, California Native Plant Society. Sac- Significance. These are the first collections from Colo-
trraimbeunttioon,.CPiAp)er'osnldyesmcernipttiioonns, bitassesoduotnhetrhneCtaylpiefosrpneicaidmiesn- rcaodmo.moTnhlisysupseecidesinantrdopPiicsatliafsisthrataiqoutaersia(seaendnemxtaynotbee)eanr-e
from Mt. San Bernardino (Parish #156, 1879), includes tering aquatic habitats from unintentional disposal by
a reference to a co-mounted collection by W.H. Brewer dealersoraquariumenthusiasts.ThecollectionbyWallace
(#1445) from the "upper Sacramento River, growing in Weld County was from an artificial cattail marsh onthe
with Darlingtonia." Jepson mentioned P. cirrata as oc- edge of a strip mall near a pet store. According to the
curring in the "upperSacramento River," andMunznot- groundskeeper at the golf course in Boulder County, the
ed its distribution in the "upper Sacramento V." How- plants float down the creek from an unknown source. The
cevuerrr,intgheinJeopnsloyntMhaenSuaanlG(aHbircieklmaMnou1n9t9a3i)nsm,enStainonBseritnaorc-- ntiwnogstoartehroenelydoazefrnacptliaonntsof(wshoamte hien fhlaodwesre)enseeearnlibery.JIteni-s
dino Mountains, and Mexico. Likewise, CNPS (2003) uncertain whether the species can survive winters, but
mentions it occurring in San Bernardino and Los An- since some largerbodies ofwater (e.g.. Pueblo Reservoir)
geles counties. Additionally, the California Department on the plains of Colorado sometimes do not freeze over
of Fish and Game's California Natural Diversity Data- during the winter, it may persist for more than one year.
pbaarsteocfontthaeinsstatneo. records ofP. cirrata from the northern PiST/A STRATIOTES L. (ARACEAE).—El Paso Co., Little
Pd.esSccirigirnrbiafetidacabnyicneP.ithpTeehriSsoavccerorallm1ee0cn0ttiyooenaRrvisevraeigfrioe.csaIttnhyaeolnsoo,ccraausirsreiesnniqctuieaelsol-fy ChTmou,OrrLnk3iO1ea)y,.ACPuro.gtDa2rm0ao0ig0ne,atgoTe.n,,KieanlnssdohaTl&ylpohGwa.,pMoTan1ed6nStg,zroR0w06i-n71gW70wiSt(8h,COE2iC3cO8h,0-
tions as to whether the northern populations are signifi-
cctbiiarorninrtasalt.tyaaSdcuhiobsalsjlsueencqpcteutireohnfnatsrpostamtobtCtehhHeiosnsSecCoovilnelderescltotoeuiorotknmhe,iedrnrneeadtvCiatilehniwatfteoorrtfnvwietoanh,ieonofgPr.tlifhofiocmsPa.-e- TbWeaXt,PperrreLevsAiLe,eonttutMsfuScr,keo,nmoFwiLMsl,iesadsGngoAeue,.rsicSTaaChpn,iedseNOCihsn.pieoscNei(vYeKes)ar,ratlacensosdztmamaitsneosdnrelM(pyCeoAra,tcceahdlAlaZetm,do
collections had been misidentified and were in fact P. cir- 1999, Synthesis ofthe North American flora. Version I.O
rata (Lawrence Janeway personal communication). One [compact disc]. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel
of those collections is from the Trinity River drainage in Hill, NC).
Trinity County, and the other is from the Scott River RoScikgynifMiocuannctea.inFirresgtionc.ollections in Colorado and the
drainage in Siskiyou County.
Thanks go to Roseburg Resources Co. for access to Physaria brassicoides Rydb. (BRASSICACEAE).
their lands, upon which this species was found and col- Weld Co., Eagle Rock Sanctuary (now defunct) on Eagle
lected, and for financial support for the collections. Rock Ranch, TUN, R65W, S8, May 1977-Sep 1978, W.
— E. Harmon 8900 (GREE); Eagle Rock Sanctuary, TUN,
Martin J. Lenz, 400 Del Monte St., Montague, CA R 65W, SI5, May-Sep 1977-1978. W. E. Harmon 8911
96064. [email protected]. (GREE).
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(http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/plant_profile.cgi?symbol= —
PHBR5). In Wyoming its closest occurrence is in Laramie Michael W. Denslow, Herbarium, Rancho Santa Ana
county (http://www.esb.utexas.edu/tchumley/wyomap/ Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Avenue, Claremont,CA
BRA/phybra.pdf). The USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping 91711, [email protected]; and Sheila Grother,
Program also reports Physaria brassicoides from the San Miguel County Weed Manager, Box 130, Norwood,
"Siltstone-Clay Butte Sparse Vegetation" community on CO 81423.
the Oligocene aged Brule Formation (http://biology.usgs.
gov/npsveg/scbl/descript/scb.pdf)- An illustration of the
species by Debbie McNiel is available from the Montana
Natural Heritage Program (http://nhp.nris.state.mt.us/ Colorado
plants/illust/sid1365i.pdf).
Significance. First collections in Colorado. This species ScoRZONERALACiNiATA L. (ASTERACEAE).—DeltaCo.,
is the only member of Physaria endemic to the Great Jumbo Mountain, ca. 6.4 km ENEofPaoniaTl3S, R91W,
Plains (The Great Plains Flora Association, 1986). It is S35 Wy2 & S34 EVa, 1830-2230 m (6000-7300 ft),
not a common plant, and one of us (Jennings) doubts squaw-apple and serviceberry zone and pinyon-Juniper
whether more than 50 sites exist throughout its entire slopes al)ove with sandstone and shales, 17 May 1997, R.
range. Physaria brassicoides occurs primarily on sparsely L. Hartman & Kevin J. Taylor 56318 (RM); ca. 4.8 km
vegetated sites that are frequently steep and eroding. The NNE of Crawford, T15S, R91W SI7, 1830-1980 m
nearest collections are approximately 100 km north at (6000-6500 ft), juniper and aspen shrubland (Atriple.x),
Scotts BluffNational Monument in Nebraskaand the Wy- 26 May 1997, K. J. Taylor 52L (COLO, RM); Archuleta
oming counties ofAlbany, Platte, and Laramie (e.g.,Dorn Co., San Juan River Basin, south ofChimney Rock in the
4975 [COLOJ). Colorado collections are from the same Chimney Rock Archaeological Area, just outside small
geological formation as the type locality in Scotts Bluff. visitor center building, UTM Zone 13 N41 16446,
Physaria brassicoides can be distinguished from the sim- E295290, ca. 2037 m (6680 ft), edge ofpavement next to
ilar species Physaria vitulifera Rydb. by its lack of teeth parking lot, under Ponderosa Pines, 9 June 2001, M. W.
on the petiole and the obcordate fruits. Denslow & M. J. Lyon 654 (RSA).
We thank Dr. S. Kelso ofColorado College for sharing Previous knowledge. Scorzonera laciniata L. {Podo-
collection data and to Dr. T. Ranker for permission to use spermum laciniatum (L.) DC.) is native to south and cen-
the herbarium at the University of Colorado (COLO). tral Europe (Chater in Tutin et al. [eds.J 1976, Flora Eu-
Work supported by NSF grant DBL0237149. ropaea, vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge,
England). It was firstdiscovered in NorthAmericain 1950
--N. Snow, J. Brashhr, R. Wallace, J. Crasser, De- near Boulder, Colorado (Great Plains Flora Association
partment of Biological Sciences, University of Northern 1986, Flora ofthe Great Plains, University Press of Kan-
Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639; and W. F Jennings, RO. sas, Lawrence KS) and has been collected in eastern Col-
Box 952, Louisville, CO 80027. (N. Snow: Neil.Snow@ orado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas,
unco.edu). and Wyoming (Kartesz and Meacham 1999, Synthesis of
the North American flora. Version 1.0 [compact disc].
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC).
Significance. These collections represent the first rec-
ords for the western slope of Colorado. This taxon pre-
Colorado viously has not been reported in floras or manuals forthe
western slope of Colorado (Weber and Wittman 2001,
echinops sphaerocephalus l. (asteraceae). Colorado Flora: western slope, 3rd ed.. University Press
MontroseCo., First Park, ca. 3 kmeastofNucla,off30.50 of Colorado, Boulder, CO). Additionally it was not re-
Road, south of town reservoir, 38°15'23"N, 108°30'29"W ported for the state by Hanington (1954, Manual of the
Nucla Quad T46N R15W sec. 10, 1 1 August 2000. M.W. plants of Colorado, Sage Books, Denver, CO). The col-
Denslow & S. Grother 528 (RSA) lection in Archuleta County is approximately 161 km
Previous knowledge. Echinops sphaerocephaUis L. is from the nearest voucher in Delta County, suggesting that
native to south and central Europe (Chater in Tutin et al. the species may be more widespread in western Colorado.
|eds.] 1976, Flora Europaea, Vol.4, CambridgeUniversity Despite this possibility, recent intensive fieldwork with
Press. Cambridge, England) and has been collected over 43,309 new numbered collections from an area of j
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throughout much ofthe northeastern United States as well more than 7 ,780 km- on the western slope of Colorado
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as in California, Colorado, Washington (KarteszandMea- by graduate students (floristic M.S. theses in Botany) and
cham 1999, Synthesis of the North American flora. Ver- staff of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium have failed to
sion 1.0 [compact disc]. North Carolina Botanical Garden, encounter it in the Gunnison Basin (K. J. Taylor 2000, A
Chapel Hill, NC) and Wyoming (Dorn 2001, Vascular floristic inventory of the Northern Gunnison Basin, Col-
plants of Wyoming, 3rd ed.. Mountain West Publishing, orado; M. Arnett 2002, A floristic inventory ofthe South-
Cheyenne, WY). In Colorado it is rarely collected and ern Gunnison Basin and the Southeastern Uncompahgre
known collections are centered between Denver and Fort Basin, Colorado), the western San Juans and vicinity (L.
Collins. M. Moore 1998, Floristics of the Upper Dolores River
sphSaigenriofciecpanhcael.usTLh.isforisthtehewesfitrestrncosllloepcetioofnCoolforEacdhoi.nNoopts Jd.raLiynoagne1a9n9d6,adAjacfleonrtistairceass.urSveoyuthowfetshteerSnanCoMliograudeol;aMn.d ]i
mentioned in Weber and Wittman 2001 (Colorado flora: Lower Dolores River drainages Colorado and Utah), or
western slope, 3rd ed., University Press of Colorado, the White River Plateau region (J. P. Vanderhorst 1993,
Boulder, CO). This collection is approximately 400 km Flora of the Flat Tops, White River Plateau, and vicinity ,
from the nearest vouchered collection in the Denverarea. in northwestern Colorado).
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Michael W. Denslow, Herbarium, Rancho Santa Ana Wood, BLM, Baker City, personal communication). An
Botanic Garden, 1500 N. College Avenue, Claremont,CA outlier population discovered by Asotin County rancher
91711, [email protected]; and Ronald L. Hart- Mike Haberman in T6N R45E sect. 27 SEy4 of SEi/4 in
man, Rocky Mountain Herbarium, Department ofBotany, the summer of 2003 forms the northern boundary of the
University of Wyoming, Laramie 82071-3165. known infestations in Joseph Canyon (45°57.873'N
1 17°10.256'W). A third location, in Hells Canyon, was
discovered in July 2002 by a Forest Service contractor.
Skip Royes, when sprayingyellow starthistle with ahorse-
Oregon mounted pack on Jack Lowery Fork ofCache Creek. Fol-
— lowing the discovery by the Nez Perce Tribe biologists,
Crupina vulgaris Cass. (ASTERACEAE). Wallowa Mark Porter, coordinator of weed program for Wallowa
Co., steep southeast-facing slopes in Joseph Canyon, ca. Resources began an inventory of potential sites and re-
1 km SE of Paradise, canyon grasslands in mosaic with ported the additional infestations.
shrublands {Pseudoroegneria spicatalFestuca idahoensis Significance. These collections represent the firstrecord
with Symphoricarpos albus), 45°55.46'N, 1 17°12.6'W, of this species from Wallowa County, Oregon. Prior to
1275 m, 6 May 2003, Roche & Korfhage s.n. (OSC); these discoveries Crupina vulgaris was known in Oregon
Pseudoroegneria spicata grasslands 1 km east of the old from a single location in Umatilla County, a population
R1i2m00romc,k7CMaafey 2o0n03,HiRgohcwhaey&3K,or4f5h°a5g3e.5s'.Nn,.1(1O7S°C1)5;.2a'nWd, tahnadtHwealslsdCiasncyovoenrsedareinmo1s98t7.likTehlyenpootpruellaattieodnstoitnheJoUsmeap-h
a third location on steep south-facing slopes above Jack tilla site but rather to larger infestations across the Snake
Lowery Fork of Cache Creek, in the Hells Canyon Na- River in Idaho. Crupina vulgaris was first discovered in
tional Recreation Area, canyon grasslands {Pseudoroeg- western North Americain Idaho (Stickney 1972, Madrono
n4e5r°i5a9.3s'pNi,cat1a1,6°5P6o.a8'Ws,ec1u0n9d0a),m,r9ocMkayysi2l0t03l,oaRmochseoilcsS,: C2l1e:a4r02w)a,terw,heSrneakiet,graonwdsSaonlmsoonutRhi-vfearcicnagnygornasss.laDnudrsinign tthhee
Korfhage s.n. (OSC). first half of the 20th century thousands of sheep were
Previous knowledge. Crupina vulgaris, native to the trailed between winterrange in Hells Canyon and summer
MCeoduintteyrrbayneCalnairreBguitotn,on,waBsLfMirsbtotdainsicsto.veVraeldeiDnisWtrailctl,owona range in the mountains of northern Idaho each year, pos-
sibly carrying seeds in the wool. All of the locations in
i6meSnesp.teHmibserfi1e9ld95,nobtuets hienddiicdatneodttrheaptorttheirteorwesraeveaspfeecw- WallowaCounty areremote, steepterrain, makingitlikely
that the infestations escaped detection for decades, a sce-
plantsremaining in floweratthebottomofJosephCanyon nario consistent with Crupina discoveries in other states
r"aoln" ajuhsott, udrpys,trceoammpacftreodm mtihcerosmitoeutaht thoefedRgueshofCarceoerk- (Roche et al. 2003, Weed Research 43:177-189). Al-
s(4e5v°e5n5.y9ea3r5s'Nl,ate1r1i7n°1A0u.g0u7s2t'W2)0.02T,hebynNeextz PdeirscceovTerriybewbais- ttahnocueghdidsepecrasdaelsmheacvheaneilaspmseedndseidn,ceadtdhietiwoeneadl'sdislcoonvge-rdiies-s
ologists, Shana Kozusko and BlairMcClarin, while doing of Crupina vulgaris in Hells Canyon are probable, given
wildlife surveys on the Precious Lands Wildlife Area in the region's grazing history, limited access, and difficult
Joseph Canyon (A. Sondenaa, Nez Perce Tribe, Lapwai, terrain.
personal communication). Later that year it was found on —
a parcel of land acquired during the summer of 2002 by Cindy T. Roche, 109 Meadow View Drive, Phoenix,
the Bureau of Land Management in Joseph Canyon (M. OR 97535, [email protected].