CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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CPC National Collection Plant Profile
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Hudsonia montana
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Hudsonia montana is Not Sponsored |
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Primary
custodian for this plant in the CPC National Collection of Endangered
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| Hudsonia montana | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The golden heather represents a wonderful case of an endangered species where threats to its very existence became tools to help save it. There are very few of these plants left and hikers and rock-climbers passing through the species' habitat were damaging many of the remaining populations. Not only did the local government of Burke County give its support behind conserving this species but also a local rock-climbing group offered to help publicize the need to protect the plants in their newsletter in the hope that this would reduce the risk of trampling by rock-climbers in the area (USFWS 1980c). An additional aid in protecting this heather is that the remaining populations are all on public land within the Pisgah National Forest where they can be protected now that the species has been listed as federally endangered (USFWS 1980b)
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References |
(2002). NC-ES Plant profiles. [Web pages] North Carolina Ecological Services--U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services--Southeast Region 4. http://nc-es.fws.gov/plant/plant.html. Accessed: 2002. |
USFWS. (1990). Endangered and Threatened Species Accounts. [Web page] U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Endangered Species. http://ecos.fws.gov/servlet/TESSSpeciesQuery. Accessed: 2002. |
USGS. (2002). Status of Listed Species and Recovery Plan Development. [Web site] USGS: Norther Prairie Wildlife Research Center. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/others/recoprog/plant.htm. Accessed: 2002. |
Gross, K.; Lockwood, J.R.; Frost, C.C.; Morris, M.F. 1998. Modeling controlled burning and trampling reduction for conservation of Hudsonia montana. Conservation Biology. 12, 6: 1291-1301. |
Jones, M.P. 1980. Hudsonia Protection Fostered by Local Cooperation. Endangered Species Technical Bulletin. 5, 11: 2-3. |
USFWS. 1980. Determination of Hudsonia montana (mountain golden-heather) to be a threatened species with critical habitat. Federal Register. 45, 204: 69360-69363. |
USFWS. 1980. Proposal to determine Hudsonia montana (mountain golden-heather) to be a threatened species and to determine its critical habitat. Federal Register. 45, 105: 36332-36335. |
USFWS. 1980. Threatened Status, Critical Habitat Proposed for Mountain Golden-Heather. Endangered Species Technical Bulletin. 5, 6: 15. |
Anonymous. 1987. Mountain golden-heather discovered outside of Linville Gorge. North Carolina Natural Heritage Program Newsletter: 8. |
Morse, L.E. 1988. Rare Plants of Appalacian Bedrock. The Nature Conservancy Magazine: 38. |
Morse, L.E. 1979. Report on the conservation status of Hudsonia montana, a candidate endangered species. Bronx, NY: New York Botanical Garden, Cooperative Parks Study Unit. p.37. |
Murdock, N.; Frost, C.C. 1991. Mountain Golden Heather, Hudsonia montana Nuttall. Asheville, NC and Raleigh, NC: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and North Carolina Plant Program. p.4. |
USFWS. 1983. Mountain Golden Heather (Hudsonia montana) Recovery Plan. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. p.26. |
Morse, Larry Eugene. 1979. Systematics and ecological biogeography of the genus Hudsonia (Cistaceae), the sand heathers. [Ph.D. Thesis]: Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. 281p. |
Stevenson, Robert Eugene. 1971. Temperature acclimatization in the black-billed magpie (Pica pica hudsonia, Sabine). [Ph.D. Thesis]: Montana State University. Bozeman, MT. 33p. |
Todd, Kenneth S. 1964. Helminth parasites of the Black-billed Magpie (Pica pica hudsonia Sabine) in Gallatin County, Montana. [M.S. Thesis]: Montana State University. Bozeman, MT. 31p. |
| This profile was updated on 3/4/2010 |