Assumed to be collector (Assumed to be collection year)
Walter Fertig
23208
2007-06-03
United States, Wyoming, Sweetwater, Green River Basin, badlands ca 0.2 miles E of Sweet- water Co. Road # 1 at mile post 9 and E of tributary wash of Buckboard Wash, ca 8 air miles W of Flaming Gorge Reservoir and 3 miles W of Black Mountain.
41.21811 -109.76254 +-258m. WGS84
TRS: T14N R110E sec 1 SEa of SW4 SPWY
From label latitude, added uncertainty
Clay barrens and lower slopes of clay badlands with thin layer of sandstone or chert. Vegetative cover ca 5%. Atriplex gardneri community with scattered Sarcoobatus vermiculatus, Elymus elymoides, & Bassia americana.
Equivalent to Welsh's var. soliarborense (type from near bone Tree). Local on slightly rockier sites than typical variety that also grows at this location. Stems more compact and obviously woody at the base compared to typical var. montanum.