Show -- ' 11410 4'1 The Salt Lake Tribune " r” I I 511"1I r t 9 I ro61" I It 9 114 ''''I I: 11 r'' V it'll L Q00) I i iI 4 ' rall V A 1 "i 1114 ts ki 11 Sunday June 21 1992 i 11 1-- et"trf i t 11& 1- 0- el 1 It --- 0 I - "ir I awl 4111 1 k r Al3 liar- - 14 IlL"' 1 ' I 11 i 1 ii li LI t -- ' ' :- Noirlik41 - 1 I (4"31r" - Ltik ‘ ' tl I- :-r-- - V :1 "7 --' 41' 0 :f ' ro' Is !7T 1 t''' - - 3 416' '' - - 7 : 7- o f i' 6) l'' 1 i Z t1 Ai-'11- 164' I by - 04 t '' - - - ' - r'- - i i - "Nr i -- 4 - -4 ' 7 tr'f- :- - 'I' ''''t - AcAtf ' 1' " '' : by energy '''''' " -- 1- 44 il' - t - 111--7- - : - 7 ' fF 1t1-'3?)- - ' '':''"----- 11 ' - :0 : 4 ' - -- ' ' "- -- si i v r - -''" I J x: '1 Ii ' J '' ' 77' - ' -- N - 'a f- r 4 - - '77' ' ' ' i' ' f a -a : - J 4 - -- i s '' 4 -- II - ' '' ' ta"'' 4 i ' ir '4 ' - it 0 0 F ' s 1 - 4- '-- 6 4'4'' ' 1- - 4 '2 - ers Threatened - - 4 -- s' ''' - - - 1 humilis) - i' - h 01 -- r - - r ' i :4-' i - - ' 'w — - ' i 1 - tr - t 1 !' 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''' lk A 'la a '1 ' :'t -' r '' 1 f4-- 1:1 - 1( t - ert '- '0' '' 7 ' 4t 4sf :' :tt4 - -v it It - ' !'" - — ' - - - ' P - ' 1614e Lt 1 01 s - '1- - - I reed-mustar- - -- 1 - e - - ' - 4 - d '' --- ---- ''' - plants Endangered by energy 1 development and habitat loss from - - " t1V4 '' - 0 ' ''' (Schoenocrambe suffrutescens) Yellow flowers on ' - ' - d 1 4 Shrubby - 7'-- ' - e "'t ' - I k (Erigeron maguirei var maguirei) Grows 5 inches tall with whitish to pink -1-- 1 flowers Found in the sand- stone cliffs of the San Rafael SwellEndangered by energy 9 and uranium development 1 l'vt '71' i' "''''' '""Ittie C1't-1:- ''- - 1' Maguire daisy 9 : i cf'-- ' t tin t '47 : i - 5 e'Z - f f i 4 reed-mustar- '' 41'I 4 at cu --- P 14 ll' br4: ' t tr' tr - ' plants exist off-ro- 41 7'--' '' r individual 17ft' : 4- - 'tt t 1 1''' :' 0 -- ' - cliffs in six ' ' - Logan Canyon locations Threatened by highway expansion and rock climbers About 3000 0 ----- i'''' '' ' -- ( ! rd moss-covere- - 1' 4 7 ''': r7 1 - 4 4'-- 4 : ltte't i ti - 404 ' tbAr I '' - ' - and selenium Endangered by uranium mining I (Primula maguirei) ''''' 1 development Also known as Despain footcactus 4 - y'llf-r-i- ' ) v ' " t '''' ''' (Schoenocrambe barnebyi) 4 1 ')L' a Known by several other common names Grows 9 to 15 inches tall small light purple flowers with dark purple veins Likes soil rich in gypsum t Six inches tall with beautrful purple flowers d Grows on cool I I I a- vtt's7t :it I e Ai (Schoenocrambe argillacea) Known by several common names Plant is 6 to 12 inches tall flowers lavender to whitish with purple veins Restricted to the Book Cliffs Threaten- ed by energy development 1 4 ! 4 ir- -‘' ''': Clay I off-roa- Barneby 4 t 4 4 ' ! - —I 191 - 1 - - ''' (Pediocactus despainii) small cactus with yellow-gol- d flowers that lives in the San Rafael Swell Endangered by d collectors vehicles and energy -- - l' - ir irc 'A : A - t '1 1- N ( -- ' - flt4 4 t Maguire primrose Low-growi- 0 ' - r k 0- i 1 - 4' ' -- ' ittt II4 -r t 4 or 'i - v t7 - ' " 4 ‘ ' fr - 4 I ' San Rafael cactus loc- - 't ' - 16:ki 1 --- t 1T -- - - i - - re- ti 1 ' ' k- 1 - r 4 - - k iiii r ' - - I ir - 1 : i -t ' e 4 t - -t le 1 :' - - c1 1 4 1 Ai - 0 7-A --- 1 1 Af : loss of wetland habitat - I '- :- 1 ' - i ' - - i'4- - t j Navajo sedge - II '''' 4 4 N - ' r :1! A '01 - ' ii ' 1 ''i '"' tb- '- - i ' V y4 - - - Last Chance townsendia —1 - '- 4'4'v )4 ''' -i - 1 (Carex specukola) A grass like plant that grows in seeps and springs on the Navajo Reservation Formerly believed stricted to Arizona but recently discovered in Utah Threatened by livestocK water development r Istreams - 1' ' d - in wide- - : a It t 0 - - - flowers Lives along 41 04 a 1444:r j-- 4 NiNir:--- '- 7 - ' - ' - '''- t I A - i 1' 4 -- An orchid that grows 8 to 20 inches tall tiny white i3O! -- - 41 - A 7 f I Vli" i' o ' t - 0 - tt 404 - 1r " 14'tdr - - I s '' 1 !or 1 o ' v 4 ' - J - ' ? it r y - v it ' ""' - - 4 Ute ladles' tresses (Spiranthes diluvialis) kt 1:x A a 1 - - turbance ''- - 4 - s sti---- -- ------- t - - '' 1 - - 4- ' -I t- 7 - '-- - il v et- to- : -- J k i z 1 11 ('it ''' '- 1 - 4 'i - ' 74- gray- - 4 7"-- ' - i:' road vehicles A ' i so' t i' i 4' " t - "if t :4 -- I” if 4 - Utah's most endangered plant It is threat- ened by urban growth and off- - II r1 - i - -- -- :o ':et0t t tall plants with white All are within 10 flowers miles of St George This is Six-inc- - -:-- i If its - 4 14 grows bearclaw-popp- y (Arictomecon 7 ' 1 :m- - 47'& '4' by the '141 ‘-r- el deposits on which it - - '' -- of - i Dwarf ' ‘ 1 ' T - (Sclerocactus wrightiae) Small flowers that range in color from white pink and yellow Scattered widely in Emery and Wayne counties Endangered by collectors f :: disand surface - by " '7' e:14 t:- Wright fishhook cactus : recent- - -- - -!- 1 ' - excavation ' i ' - i7- - - - sss y -d 3- s (Sclerocactus glatteus) Grows 6 to 8 inches tall with lavender flow- ''' '''r''''' - i 0s '' t - - ---------1 f l ' : - grazing off- road vehicles hookless cactus - 'skr - ' (Ascleplas welshii) A plant adapted to sand dunes Largest population at Coral Pink Sand Dunes -1--1 State Park Threatened by -1 il A ' ' sf -- ' "9- - ? Uinta Basin 4 4 ' ' - 1- ' - - Welsh's milkweed o r :i' k r group was 1 V' A4 - so311r ji - t 4 - -4 Ar' I - mining - A pisecond e it ie"' of o - 0 Co -- 7-- ' 3 a : to- "- "i J :' 4 - - 1 - -- perennial with yellow flowers Grows in swampy ''' - - 7 's (Echinocereus triglochidiatus var inermis) A cactus with scarlet flowers Endangered by collecting May from be dropped endangered list because of change in classification 1 - A area near Panguitch 1 t 4' ''' - c Spineless hedgehog cactus A '''' fri Autumn buttercup 1 L ''"r ''' ' 1 '''' v- - f Lt' -- ----- f' d 4a k--- t- - - - ' it 4 07 '' - - Ai - -- I -- 'w '''''- - ' :1 t ' 4" i eiotI l - -- grazing 100 ii- r-if tz I 1 il' ' -- 2 'f' - Sk:::)'S'n':V 1 - - : ' - ie l' h' t1 ' :- - - ' iI IS- p i io'06 ao t 4k 'At4'- - - r1- - ''"I'- ' V'- ii - '1"i'"---- '' r - V- : '- ftLIroad Aoi ' k IA - '- 0 Ilk N -- - - - 0' 11 ----- ' 7 P ' got I? s '1A-- " r - Grows - ' 4 t 4 'i' f ri - vehi- - J (Ranunculus acriformis var aestivalis) 7 it ' t I f fe- ' - 0' - ' '' '1 spines Endangered by collectors and o- - '' "' tvI 'i - ' if' 12:4-7 t- - by livestock grazing WICIEMENEMEllb - - '''''i 1 endangered 1-7s- - '"" 4 s ' ' i is it plants ' off-roa- t 4 et :e' '''' - It -' - ! ' to (Pediocactus sikri) Grows 2 to 9 inches tall Has yellow flowers and long 4 : --'4- cactus 7-- - ':11 - - 1) (Phacelia argillacea) Plant with blue-violflowers that lives in Spanish Fork Canyon One of Utah's rarest t t ' f - j- " 1 and mineral developd vement and hicles - - I c 1"--- Ycll'c' - Slier pincushion - - ' 1- 0: '!' 1 t!t- t--- k - - i - - AT -- resemble small pink to purple morning glories Grows on barren clay hills forming the steep slopes and bases of mesas -- - -- i -' '- - ':''s '0 t - - i --- Clay phacelia (Cydadenta humilis var jonesii) Plant is 4 to 6 inches tall Flowers - Z 1--- - CI' -t A ''''''''" ' -- mosimillibl Jones cycladenia 0- 4 '" ' - -- - - ' 1 ' 'r'' ' - 'At ' 1:''' -j - ' 4 1 ' -s- Ac peppergrass Threatened f- 1 ' : ' -- 4- energy develop- ment Also known as Barneby - 6 - 'V'''''' 27 z" 1)"''-N- -- off-ro- —11 i ''ill- k1)'"Actli ' - Creek Canyon Endangered vehicles and ' ' - r g cotati--itiiii- 7:' - 4- 44 1 0 ri: ri4--- ' ' - - k ra7t:4-74-::-:A-11:- - family this plant grows 2 to 6 inches tall Found in Indian - 7' ' 1kt' - 4r ': -- s5- 11 l ''' 44 i - s ridge-cres- (Lepidium bamebyanum) A member of the mustard -' - - - - Barneby - '- - 17- 4 1 t' r 1 4ft-- 4 41 144Aa I E At) s ---I I - - LINN °' 1 tt Lit74 i I -- al 'kr' -- -- if-i-' ::i 0 r 11 - 4101 - - I rt it r $1 4 i II'r 4t" -- - I 11 1 allieffolliatidna 'Ll''''''''7"-- " 4i1Wiklatter1141404-4-0aqt- ' t I 1 tt 1 L'-- 1 Tp p rlrl - 11 V vii '41-- ilAN f) li - i 21 r4 F i in 1 A ‘ Lem I ''''3 LOCAL - 1 Heliotrope millwetch ---- 1 (Astragalus montii) mining for building stones plant with flowers Found near timberline on the Wasatch Plateau Threatened by livestock grazing Low-growi- --- - pink-purp- le Photos by Larry England Stan Welsh Joel Tuhy Ben Franklin Kathryn Mutz Donna House Ken Heil Leila Shultz Lynn Johnson Doug Fullmer and Nick Van Pelt Bloom to Bust? Growth Takes Toll on Utah's Mower Power By Jim Woolf THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Four strands of wire are all that separate Utah's most endangered plant from the sprawling subdivisions around St George — Dwarf bearclaw-poppieplants with beautiful white flowers —stand in a narrow band of soil along the southern edge of town gypsum-ricThese rolling hills hold the worlds only population of dwarf bearclaw-poppieTheyre also a popular playground for motorcycles and other vehicles Bob Douglas a Bureau of Land Management biologist says the fence protecting the plants has been "cut or run over 15 to 20 times in the last couple years But the frequency of it being cut has been going down lately" Still on motorcycles sneak past the s h s off-roa- d teen-ager- s 1 - :: : fence occasionally and mountain bikers frequently pedal through the area But Mr Douglas believes the are takpeople who live near the bearclaw-poppie- s ing a greater interest in protecting them He is optimistic the plants will survive is one of 20 Utah The dwarf bearclavv-poppplants on the federal list of threatened and endangered species Included are a purple primrose in Logan Canyon a delicate yellow buttercup from a ormarshy area near Panguitch and a chid with tiny white flowers that grows along streams in several parts of the state Diverse in appearance and habitat all 20 have two things in common: their ranges are restricted and they are threatened by human activity The dwarf bearclaw-poppis considered Utahs most endangered plant because its limited habitat is in the path of one of the states corn y water-lovin- y fastest-growin- A g g munities The other plants are threatened by highway construction cattle grazing and energy development "There is something noble about this generation attempting to save something for the next" says Stanley Welsh professor of botany and range science at Brigham Young University "Ideally that is what the Endangered Species Act does" One of Utah's endangered plants was named in honor of the BYU professor Welsh's milkweed grows only on part of the Coral Pink Sand Dunes in Kane County Dune buggies pose the greatest threat to this rare plant ''I'm endangered too" jokes Mr Welsh "There is only one of me But at least I don't have weekend warriors in churning their wheels is That down what they are doing to and my spine up the Welsh milkweed through the most important I CI Endangered Plants Poster r If you would like a poster of the above endangered plants in Utah send your name address and $2 to: Endangered Plants Poster The Salt Lake Tribune 143 S Main Salt Lake City Utah 84111 full-colo- part of its rangeStudies are under way to learn more about the milkweed and ways to protect it A Kane County citizens group is looking for ways to reduce use The Nature Conservancy a private conservation group has stepped in and purchased land occupied See A-1- 7 Column 1 1 |