Ranunculus jovis A. Nelson

Montana: Carbon County: Pryors, Cooked Creek Drainage Big Ice Cave. WSGS 7.5 minute quad. By the ephemeral stream that is the origin of Crooked Creek, Just north of the Pryor Spur Road, 2849 on USGS map. Elev. 7140 ft.
UTM Zone 12T, 701519E, 5006145N
In the evening shadow of the west ridge is an extensive snowbank community with tunnels and dirt mold of burrows from subnivean pocket gopher activity. Snowbank is still melting. Our plant and Claytonia lanceolata are in bloom at the edge of the snowbank. No other plants have emerged within ten feet of the snowbank. A loamy soil with limestone cobbles. Erect herbaceous perennial, 7 cm. Single yellow flower per stem with stems ofter in a cluster. Phenology: Flowers.

Clayton H. McCracken MD157, May 19, 2005
MONT, Accession: 80525