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377.
Rocky Mountain
At end of Fern Lakes road.
Grass & forage are very abundant.
The following species are herewith identified:
1. Pteridium aquilinum Bracken Fern, common in shade of aspens about camp ground & along streams.
2. Phleum pratense, Timothy, abundant under aspen fall around camp ground.
3. Agropyron spicatum Bunch wheat grass commonly mixed with other grasses.
4. Carex fastiua? Sedge common around camp.
5. Poa ? (about 1/2 - 2 ft. tall) very abundant.
6. Aremonum canadensis (Northern anemone).
7. Heracleum lanatum (Cow Parsnip) abundant.
8. Rosa sp. (Wild Rose) abundant
9. Geranium richardsonii (Wild White G.) common
10. Achillea millefolium (Yarrow) few
11. Trifolium pratense (Common red clover) common
12 " repens ( " white " )
13. Aspen thickets showing little browsing.
14 Populus angustifolia (narrowleaf aspen) common, at west edge of Moraine Park.
1. Rasciphora fruticosa (Bush cinquefoil) few & largely browsed.
2. White flower panicled 4-opposite leaved, square stemmed mustard common
3. Willows sp. show considerable browsing;
4. Artemisia frigida (Fringed Sagbrush) not abundant.