APPENDIX J

SENSITIVE SPECIES HABITAT
Changes Between Draft and Final Environment Impact Statement

Changed appendix letter from G to J.

Removed species not on Regional Forester’s Sensitive Species or Survey and 

Manage List.

Made minor editorial and spelling corrections.
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APPENDIX J

SENSITIVE SPECIES HABITAT

Figure J-1. Region 6 Regional Forester Special Status Species Documented or Suspected to Occur on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest (2011). 

Includes some former Sensitive species documented on the Forest.

Vascular Species

Scientific Name RFSSSStatus Presence 

on Forest

Habitat

Agrostis mertensii

Northern Bentgrass

Sensitive D Mainly alpine meadows above 7000 ft. elevation. Mesic to moist meadow habitats near streams 

and wetlands. 

Antennaria parvifolia

Nutall’s Pussy-toes

Sensitive D Dry, open places, openings in Ponderosa pine forests, on sand and gravel substrates, often 

riparian in the foothills of the Columbia basin.

Astragalus arrectus

Palouse Milk-vetch

Sensitive D Regional endemic to Columbia basin, Palouse, and west-central ID. Grassy hillsides, sagebrush 

flats, river buffs to open PIPO forests.

Astragalus microcystis

Least Bladdery Milkvetch

Sensitive Suspected

(S)

In eastern Washington, on gravelly to sandy areas from riverbanks to open woods from 1400 ft. to 

6200 ft. elevation. 

Botrychium ascendens

Upward-lobed 

Moonwort

Sensitive/

Federal Species 

of Concern

D From 2100 ft. to 6000 ft. in moist microsites; meadows, and moist deciduous and conifer forests.

Botrychium 

crenulatum

Crenulate Moonwort

Sensitive/

Federal Species 

of Concern

D Moist riparian habitats from 3100 ft. to 5800 ft. in elevation.

Botrychium hesperium

Western Moonwort

Sensitive D Moist to dry meadows from low elevation prairies to alpine meadows. Documented at 6900 ft.

Botrychium lineare

Slender Moonwort

Sensitive/ 

Federal Species 

of Concern

S Associated with moist to dry meadows from low elevation prairies to alpine meadows. 

Botrychium 

paradoxum

Twin-spiked 

Moonwort

Sensitive/

Federal Species 

of Concern

D Associated with dry meadows in floodplains in gentle to flat terrain between 5600 ft. and 6450 ft.

elevation. In other areas of the state it is found between 2800 ft. and 6550 ft. elevation in a 

variety of habitats which include sagebrush (Artemisia) habitat, dry meadow communities 

associated with floodplains and stream terraces, and moist coniferous forests in association with 
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Vascular Species

Scientific Name RFSSSStatus Presence 

on Forest

Habitat

western red cedar, western hemlock, and grand fir.

Botrychium 

pedunculosum

Stalked Moonwort

Sensitive/

Federal Species 

of Concern

S Known sites in the state occur between 2460 ft. and 6200 ft. elevation in moist riparian areas, and 

moist to dry meadows.

Carex atrosquama (C. 

atrata var. 

atrosquama)

Blackened Sedge

Strategic D Wet to moist soils along outlet streams, in wet subalpine and alpine meadows above 6100 ft. 

Carex capillaris

Hair-like Sedge

Sensitive D Moist meadows along sandy lake shores from 3800 ft. to 6500 ft. Also stream banks and wet 

ledges in moderate to high elevations up to about tree line.

Carex chordorrhiza

Cordroot Sedge

Sensitive D Wetland at 4480 ft. in the Subalpine fir forest zone. 

Carex comosa

Bristly Sedge

Sensitive D Associated with floating mats of vegetation in muck and peat wetlands. Marshes, lake-shores, and 

wet

meadows from 50 ft. to 2000 ft. elevation. 

Carex gynocrates

Yellow Bog Sedge

Sensitive D Sphagnum bogs, forested wetlands and other wet marshy places between 2600 ft. and 3800 ft.

Carex heteroneura var.

epapillosa

Blackened Sedge

Sensitive D Stream margins in open forests and moist meadows in the subalpine to alpine zones. 

Carex macrochaeta

Large-awned Sedge

Sensitive S Moist or wet, open places, seepage areas, around waterfalls, in wet meadows, and along streams 

and

lakes. 

Carex magellanica ssp. 

irrigua

Poor Sedge

Sensitive D Fens, bogs, shady wet meadows, shrub wetlands, and marshes, often growing in peat soil, at 1640 

to 7000 ft. (500 to 2134 m) elevation. 

Carex media

(C. norvegica)

Intermediate Sedge

Sensitive D Wet stream banks, subalpine and alpine rich moist forb meadows. .

Carex pauciflora

Few-flowered Sedge

Sensitive S Associated with Western hemlock, Mt Hemlock, Western red cedar, and Pacific silver fir. 

Carex proposita

Great Smokey Mt. 

Sedge

Sensitive D Rocky alpine and subalpine habitats often at tree line.
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Vascular Species

Scientific Name RFSSSStatus Presence 

on Forest

Habitat

Carex rostrata

Beaked Sedge

Sensitive S Around ponds and swampy meadows, mid to high elevations.

Carex scirpoidea ssp. 

scirpoidea

Northern Single- Spike 

Sedge

Sensitive D Moist alpine meadows bordering talus slopes, dry to moist meadows, and talus with some soil 

development between 5900 ft. and 7600 ft.

Carex stylosa

Long-styled Sedge

Sensitive S Saturated and seasonally flooded fibrous and sphagnum peat soils or sloping wetlands with 

surface 

Seepage; silver fir and mountain hemlock zone.

Carex sychnocephala

Many-headed Sedge

Sensitive D Associated with permanently saturated, moist, or wet soils along lake shores and marshes from 

1000 ft. to 3000 ft. elevation. 

Carex tenuiflora

Sparse-leafed Sedge

Sensitive D At 5800 ft. in a bog/fen wetland. 

Carex vallicola

Valley Sedge

Sensitive D Moist to moderately dry slopes from the foothills to moderate elevations in the mountains, often 

with sagebrush or aspen. 

Castilleja cryptantha

Obscure Indian 

Paintbrush

Sensitive/

Federal Species 

of Concern

D High elevation meadows. 

Chaenactis thompsonii

Thompson’s 

chaenactis

Sensitive D Mid-montane forest habitats with subalpine fir, Douglas-fir and whitebark pine. 

Claytonia lanceolata 

ssp. pacifica

Pacific lance-leaved 

springbeauty

Sensitive S Subalpine habitat

Coeloglossum viride

Long-bract frog orchid

Sensitive D Mesic to wet forests, grassy slopes, shores, bogs and swamps in the lowland and mountain zones.

Chrysosplenium 

tetrandrum

Northern Goldencarpet

Sensitive D Found in gentle terrain along steam banks and seeps or other wet sites in forests with densely 

vegetated creek bottoms, damp mossy hummocks. 

Cicuta bulbifera

Bulb-bearing Water 

Hemlock

Sensitive D Between 1930 ft.-3700 ft. in elevation in muck soils or standing water associated with marshes, 

stream, lake, or pond margins where Carex utriculata is often the dominant sedge.
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Vascular Species

Scientific Name RFSSSStatus Presence 

on Forest

Habitat

Coptis aspleniifolia

Spleenwort-leaved 

Goldthread

Sensitive S Pacific silver fir and Mountain hemlock forest habitats.

Cryptogramma stelleri

Steller’s Rockbrake

Sensitive D Seeps and moist shaded places in cliff crevices in moderate to steep slopes 3000 ft. to 6000 ft.

Cypripedium 

parviflorum

Yellow Lady’s Slipper

Sensitive D Bogs, wet forest habitats, and in the channeled scablands of eastern WA., around ponds and in 

low, moist areas, generally in close association with red osier dogwood and aspen between 2100

ft. and 3440 ft. elevation.

Delphinium viridescens

Wenatchee Larkspur

Sensitive/

Federal Species 

of Concern

D This is a Wenatchee Mountain endemic found in dry Ponderosa pine/Douglas fir forests in mesic 

to moist sites.

Draba aurea

Golden Draba

Sensitive D Well drained alpine meadows that are seasonally moist, krummholz, dry meadow, and talus slope 

habitats between 6800 ft. to 7400 ft. Favors southerly aspects. 

Draba cana

Lance-leafed Draba

Sensitive D Alpine fell fields on mid to upper slopes frequently in steep terrain from 5900 ft. to 7800 ft., dry 

rocky exposures. 

Dryas drummondii var. 

drummondii

Yellow Mountain 

Avens

Sensitive S In calcium rich areas between 2000 ft. and 6750 ft. in elevation, in open gravelly areas often 

above tree line or at lower elevations along streams. 

Erigeron salishii

Salish Fleabane

Sensitive D Alpine species found on typically flat, southerly exposed ridge lines, mountain tops, fell fields, and 

upper slopes from 6800 ft. to 8690 ft. 

Eriophorum 

viridicarinatum

Green-keeled 

Cottongrass

Sensitive D At 6000 ft. elevation in fens/bogs, wet meadows, and wetland margins. 

Eritrichium nanum var. 

elongatum

Pale Alpine Forget-menot

Sensitive D Alpine ridges in relatively stable granitic scree. Associated with alpine cushion plant communities 

on gentle slopes, in exposed gravelly soil between 7300 ft.-8300 ft.

Eurybia merita

Arctic aster

Sensitive S Subalpine

Gentiana douglasiana Sensitive D Subalpine – alpine species, in relatively shaded moist meadows, bogs, and ephemeral seeps. 
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Vascular Species

Scientific Name RFSSSStatus Presence 

on Forest

Habitat

Swamp gentian Associated with conifers and alpine forbs on gentle slopes between 3000 and 7000 ft. elevation.

Gentiana glauca

Glaucous Gentian

Sensitive D Wetland transition zones on hummock topography, seeps. In wetlands basins and on alpine 

benches between 6800 and 8000 ft.

Gentianella tenella 

ssp. tenella

Slender Gentian

Sensitive D Subalpine and alpine meadows and wetlands with gently sloping terrain between 6800 ft. and 

7100 ft., on southerly aspects. 

Geum rivale

Water Avens

Sensitive D Open lodgepole pine and Engelmann spruce at 6440 ft. 

Geum rossii var. 

depressum

Ross’s Avens

Sensitive D High elevation alpine or krummholz habitat.

Hackelia hispida var. 

disjuncta

Sagebrush Stickseed

Sensitive D Dry forest and shrub steppe habitats, often in rocky bluffs and cliff micro-habitats. Rocky talus 

between 600 and 2100 feet.

Hackelia venusta

Showy Stickseed

Federally 

Endangered

D Found in dry open bunchgrass forest habitats, and adjacent cliffs.

Heterotheca oregona 

var. oregona

Oregon Goldenaster

Sensitive D Sand and gravel bars along rivers. In Washington, this species was found on a sandy riverbank at 

the edge of a Douglas fir-ponderosa pine forest at 2600 ft.

Howellia aquatilis

Howellia

Federally 

Threatened

S Small, vernal ponds, although some of the ponds may retain water throughout the year. Soils are 

rich in organic matter and frequently contain partially decomposed leaves, stems, and wood, 

between 10 ft. and 2300 ft.

Illiamna longisepala

Longsepal 

Globemallow

Sensitive D Sagebrush/bitterbrush steppe to ponderosa pine forests in the low to mid elevations between 500

ft. to 4500 ft. Dry, open hillsides, gravelly streamsides and open ponderosa pine forests. 

Juncus howellii

Howell’s Rush

Sensitive D Moist area at the base of a basalt cliff at 2840 ft.

Loiseleuria 

procumbens

Alpine Azalea

Sensitive D Above 6000 ft. in heather communities.

Luzula arcuata ssp. 

unalaschcensis

Curved Woodrush

Sensitive D Above 7000 ft. in moist boulder talus crevices above timberline and often near mountain 

summits. 
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Vascular Species

Scientific Name RFSSSStatus Presence 

on Forest

Habitat

Lycopodium 

dendroideum

Treelike Clubmoss

Sensitive S Between 800 ft. and 3650 ft. in the moist forests. 

Mimulus pulsiferae

Pulsifer’s Monkeyflower

Sensitive D Found in seasonally moist rock out crops and moist depressions in flat terrain in ponderosa pine 

and dry Douglas-fir forest types. In seasonally moist, open places often in exposed mineral soil 

from the foothills and valleys to the mid elevations east of the Cascades. 

Mimulus suksdorfii

Suksdorf’s Monkeyflower

Sensitive D Known from a steep talus and scree slope above timberline at 7100 ft. with a south aspect. It is 

suspected to occur in wet to dry open places from the lowlands to high in the mountains. 

Montia diffusa

Branching montia

Sensitive D Moist forests at lower elevations

Nicotiana attenuata

Coyote Tobacco

Sensitive D Dry sandy bottom lands, dry rocky washes, and in other dry open places from 400 ft. to 10,000 ft.

Has been reported to occur with basin wildrye and common weedy species such as mullein, 

knapweed, Russian thistle, and cheatgrass. 

Oxytropis monticola

Slender Crazyweed

Sensitive S Documented in alpine habitat in N. Central WA. Suspected habitat is wide ranging from mesic to 

dry meadows, grassy slopes, sandy or gravelly riverbanks and terraces, and forest opening from 

lowlands and steppe to alpine zones.

Parnassia kotzebuei

Kobzebue’s Grass-ofParnassus

Sensitive D 4800 ft. to 6700 ft. elevation on north aspects in moderate to steep terrain associated with cliff 

edges and at the base of talus slopes in moist seeps. 

Pedicularis rainierensis

Mt. Rainier Lousewort

Sensitive D Moist alpine meadows, open coniferous forests, and on rocky slopes. Often it grows near streams, 

and it is known to occur throughout some lake basins.

Pellaea brachyptera

Sierra Cliff-brake

Sensitive D Known from 1100 ft. to 2500 ft. elevation in the state. Habitat is associated with dry rocky slopes 

low to mid elevations in open bunchgrass communities with scattered ponderosa pine.

Pellaea breweri

Brewer’s Cliff-brake

Sensitive D 7500 ft., rock crevices, ledges, and talus slopes. Less often in open rocky soil from the foothills to 

about tree line, on serpentine in WA.

Penstemon eriantherus 

var. whitedii

Whited’s Penstemon

Sensitive D West facing slopes of small canyons, and in dry and rocky habitats in the foothills of the Cascade 

Range and in the Columbia Basin from 525 to 3835 feet.

Petrophytum 

cinerascens

Chelan Rockmat

Sensitive/

Federal Species 

of Concern

D Only known from gneissic cliffs along the Columbia River in dry rocky habitat. 

Phacelia minutissima Sensitive/ D Found at mid elevations in the mountains. 
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Vascular Species

Scientific Name RFSSSStatus Presence 

on Forest

Habitat

Dwarf Phacelia Federal Species 

of Concern

Physaria didymocarpa 

var. didymocarpa

Common Twinpod

Sensitive D Dry forest habitat.

Pilularia americana

American Pillwort

Sensitive D Middle zones of vernal pools from 1930 to 2310 feet elevation. 

Pinus albicaulis

Whitebark pine

Sensitive D Alpine species frequently found on dry southern exposures and exposed windswept ridges, often 

on very thin soils. 4,000 to 11,000 feet elevation

Platanthera chorisiana

Choris’ Bog-orchid

Sensitive S Wettest regions of sphagnum bogs and along streamsides, and on moss-covered rocks. 2540 -

4300 ft.

Platanthera obtusata

Small Northern Bogorchid

Sensitive D Damp to wet places in forests, marshes, bogs, meadows, and along streambanks. 800 to 5000 ft.

Platanthera sparsiflora

Canyon bog-orchid

Sensitive D Open wet areas, seeps, bogs at low to mid elevations.

Polemonium viscosum

Skunk Polemonium

Sensitive D Above 6300 ft. Favors flat to gentle terrain in alpine talus, fell fields in glacial cirques, summits, 

and shoulder slopes. 

Potentilla nivea

Snow Cinquefoil

Sensitive D Found above 7000 ft. on flat to gently sloping topography in alpine meadows, fell fields, and rock 

outcrops along alpine ridges and summits

Pulsatilla patens ssp. 

multifida

Cutleaf anemone

Sensitive D Ponderosa pine communities, dry hillsides.

Pyrrocoma hirta var. 

sonchifolia

Sticky Goldenweed

Sensitive D Meadows and open wooded slopes in the foothills, at moderate elevations. 4700 ft. in 

Washington.

Ribes oxyacanthoides 

ssp. irriguum

Idaho Gooseberry

Sensitive D Along streams, meadow openings, and slopes of moist to dry canyons 3000 to 5000 feet.

Rotala ramosior

Lowland Toothcup

Sensitive D Damp areas in fine sand and silt. Wet, swampy places, lakes and pond margins, and along free 

flowing river reaches between 200 to 2259 ft.

Rubus arcticus ssp. Sensitive D Open wetlands and wet meadows within spruce dominated forests at 5900 ft. 
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Vascular Species

Scientific Name RFSSSStatus Presence 

on Forest

Habitat

acaulis

Nagoonberry

Salix glauca ssp.

glauca var. villosa

Glaucous willow

Sensitive D Perennial streams, stream banks, and marshes in draws, floodplains, and glacial cirques and 

valleys between 5200 ft. and 5850 ft. in gentle to flat topography. 

Salix maccalliana

Maccall’s Willow

Sensitive D Bogs, fens, swamps, and marshes in open, low-lying sites. 2400 to 3000 feet. 

Salix pseudomonticola

False mountain willow

Sensitive S Moist fens, treed bogs, and river floodplains.

Sanicula marilandica

Black Snake-root

Sensitive D Moist floodplains and woods, marsh edges and old riverine channels in gentle to flat topography 

with silty and sandy river bottoms, between 1800 and 3400 ft.

Saxifraga cernua

Nodding Saxifrage

Sensitive D Boulder talus above 6500 ft. in thin moist soils and moist scree. 

Saxifragopsis 

fragarioides

Strawberry Saxifrage

Sensitive D Dry forest.

Sidalcea oregana var.

calva

Wenatchee Mt 

Checker-mallow

Federally 

Endangered

D Dry forest and moist meadows, stream margins generally within ponderosa pine forest.

Silene seelyi

Seely’s Silene

Sensitive/

Federal Species 

of Concern

D Shaded crevices in ultramafic to basaltic cliffs and rock outcrops, and occasionally among boulders 

in talus. Occurs from 1500 to 6300 feet in elevation. 

Sisyrinchium 

sarmentosum

Pale blue-eyed grass

Sensitive S Occurs primarily in open wet meadows, sometimes in association with perennial streams and 

within a mosaic that includes coniferous forested wetlands. Grasses and sedges commonly 

dominate the habitats. 2100 to 6100 feet elevation.

Spiranthes diluvialis

Ute Ladies’-tresses

Federally 

Threatened

S Floodplains, channels, streambanks, springs, seeps, lake and pond margins where soils are likely 

alkaline, periodically flooded, and moist throughout the growing season. Elevations range 

between1500 and 7000 ft.

Spiranthes porrifolia

Western Ladies-tresses

Sensitive D Between 5400 and 6800 ft. in glacial cirque wetlands, bogs, and fens. Also in vernally moist seeps 

in otherwise dry rocky habitats. 

Trifolium thompsonii

Thompson’s Clover

Sensitive/

Federal Species 

of Concern

D Endemic to southeastern Chelan County and adjacent Douglas County, WA. Open grassland and 

open ponderosa pine forest.
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Vascular Species

Scientific Name RFSSSStatus Presence 

on Forest

Habitat

Vaccinium myrtilloides

Velvet-leaf Blueberry

Sensitive D Mid-slope in open semi-mature Engelmann spruce forests in a well-developed moss layer at 

around 3500 ft. Dry to moist, sandy or rocky clearings and open woods, sphagnum bogs, and 

swamps. 

Viola renifolia

Kidney-leaved violet

Sensitive D Generally found in moist forested sites, and sometimes along ditches or streams. May be found 

from lowland coniferous forest to subalpine slopes.
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Figure J-2. Region 6 Survey and Manage Species (2011) documented or suspected on the Forest.

Species Category Forest Habitat

Botrychium 

montanum

Mountain moonwort

VASCULAR PLANT

Category A D Dark coniferous forests, usually with Western red cedar. Near streams and swamps from 3300 to 9800 

ft elevation.

Schistostega pennata

MOSS

Category A D On mineral soil in shaded pockets of overturned tree roots, often with shallow pools of standing water

at the base of the root wad. It also grows attached to rock or mineral soil around the entrance to 

caves, old cellars and animal burrows.

Tritomaria 

exsectiformis

LIVERWORT

Category B D Dry to moist, partially shaded soil or litter and soil in rock crevices. Also on rock and decaying wood. 

One site is next to a low gradient stream in a subalpine cirque basin.

Tetraphis geniculata

MOSS

Category A S Moist coniferous forest with large down logs, and occasionally on peaty banks in moist coniferous 

forests from sea level to subalpine elevations.

Dendriscocaulon 

intricatulum

LICHEN

Category B S Mesic to moist forests in the upper western hemlock and lower pacific silver fir zone (30-2170 ft.). 

Primarily in mature and old-growth Douglas-fir, hemlock, and pacific silver fir where it is epiphytic on 

lower twigs of suppressed understory hemlock and pacific silver fir. Less frequently on subalpine fir. 

Dermatocarpon

meiophyllizum

LICHEN

Category E D On rocks along stream banks and lake sides where frequently wetted.

Leptogium burnetia 

var hirsutum

LICHEN

Category A

S Infrequent over trees and rare over mossy outcrops in sheltered intermountain forests. 

Leptogium cyanescens

LICHEN Category A D Tree bark of both conifers and hardwoods, logs, mossy rocks in sheltered humid, cool microsites of intermountain forests.

Nephroma bellum

LICHEN Category F D Restricted to moist forests with strong Pacific coastal influence. Substrate is often riparian hardwoods.

Peltigera pacifica

LICHEN Category E S Mossy logs, tree bases, soil and rocks in low elevation moist forest habitats.

Tholurna dissimilis

LICHEN

Category B south 

of the Columbia 

River

D On twigs and branches of exposed conifers in humid subalpine and alpine habitats. Mostly on exposed 

subalpine ridges and peaks, occasionally at low to mid elevations in cool moist sites.

Albatrellus ellisii

FUNGI Category B D On ground, under conifers.

Clavariadelphus 

occidentalis

FUNGI

Category B

D On soil or duff under conifers or mixed coniferous deciduous forest.
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Clavariadelphus 

sachalinensis

FUNGI

Category B

D On soil or duff under mixed conifers. Moist forests or riparian zones.

Cudonia monticola

FUNGI Category B D On Spruce needles and conifer debris.

Gomphus bonarii

FUNGI Category B D Hidden in deep humus under pine and fir species. 

Gomphus kauffmanii

FUNGI Category B D Hidden in deep humus under pine and fir species. 

Leucogaster citrinus

FUNGI Category B D Found in association with roots of white fir, subalpine fir, lodgepole pine, western white pine, Douglasfir, and western hemlock from 656 to 918 ft. elevation.

Ramaria amyloidea

FUNGI Category B D On humus or soil under fir species, Douglas-fir and western hemlock.

Ramaria 

aurantiisiccescens

FUNGI

Category B

D On humus or soil under fir species, Douglas-fir and western hemlock.

Ramaria largentii

FUNGI Category B D Fruits in humus or soil and matures above the surface of the ground. Associated with fir species, Douglas-fir and western hemlock, and western white pine.

Ramaria 

rubrievanescens

FUNGI

Category B

D In humus or soil. Associated with pine species.

Ramaria 

rubripermanens

FUNGI

Category B

D In humus or soil. Associated with pine species.

Sarcodon fuscoindicus

FUNGI Category B D On the ground in association with hemlock and pine species.

Spathularia flavida

FUNGI Category B D In clusters or fairy rings on litter or woody debris of conifer and hardwood forests.

Heritage Program (WNHP) Site Database, Flora of the Pacific NW by Hitchcock and Cronquist, and Field Guide to Washington’s Rare Plants 2005 cooperatively 

produced by WNHP and Spokane District BLM. Plant names and acronyms taken from the Plants Database (www.plants.usa.gov).
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