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<br />RANGE SITE N0. 241 <br />UNTAIN MEADOW <br />.,ugusi 1975 <br /> <br />• - _, <br />3.. Native (potential) Vegetation <br />Page 2 <br />Grasses and sedges give the site its characteristic appearance; <br />~. although a great variety of forbs are showy when in bloom and <br />may comprise up to 20$ of the annual yield. Nebraska sedge or <br />other large sedges are dominant on the lowest, usually permanently <br />wet, areas. Tufted hairgrass dominates slightly higher ground, <br />.which may be dry on the surface at times. The two types inter- <br />grade in many places. Other common grass or grasslike plants <br />~.~ are slender wheatgrass (drier portions), ovalhead sedge, Baltic <br />rush, Canada bluegrass, and bluejoint and northern reedgrasses.. <br />Thurber fescue or sheep fescue may show up on drier portions at <br />higher elevations. Several others can be expected in trace amounts. <br />Some-of the prominent forbs are also common to lower meadow sites, <br />native clovers, Rocky Hountain iris, asters, arnicas, groundsels, <br />herbaceous cinquefoils, mints, .yarrow., golden pea, vetch, and water <br />hemlock. .Some forbs such as ligusticum and fireweed are common on <br />drier mountain sites. But a number of plants typical of this site <br />. ere .primarily, if not entirely, on wet or semi-wet ground in the <br />mountains. Among these are false hellebore, monkshood, elkslip, <br />marsh marigold, saxifrages, sedums, shooting star, primroses, <br />swertia, some gentians, elephant head, bog birch, and shrubby <br />cinq'uefoid. Willow usually make up a minor part of the plant <br />;'- community. At some locations there are small amounts of silver <br />~~,~ sagebrush. <br />~.:. <br /> <br />Native (potenYi.al) Vegetation and Guide Determining Range <br />Condition. <br />Percentage .composition by weight of the.principal species may <br />total as much as: <br />Tufted hairgrass 50 <br />". Nebraska'sedge. ~ 30 <br />Slender wheatgrass 20 <br />Ovalhead sedge 15 <br />Baltic rush 5 <br />Other sedges and rushes 5 <br />Other grasses (as listed above) 5 <br />Yarrow ) <br />Iris ) 5 <br />Herbaceous cinquefoil 5 <br />False hellebore 5 <br />Other forbs (as listed above) 10 <br />Willows 10 <br />Other shrubs (as listed above) 5 <br />OCGaSiD hal/ 8as,n co."/~y~, ~O /~„-X„ -G....,~ <br />-~. <br />_\ <br /> <br />47 <br />