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Mt. Naomi Musineon (Musineon naomiensis)

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Photo by Garrett Billings; Garrett Billings
Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA

Mt. Naomi Musineon

Mt. Naomi Musineon (Musineon naomiensis)

Photo by Garrett Billings; Garrett Billings
Sources: ESRI, USGS, NOAA

Musineon naomiensis

NatureServe conservation status

Global (G-rank): G2
State (S-rank): S2

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Phenology

Flowers mid to late summer

Species range

Grows in the Bear River Range (Utah and southern Idaho) and the Wellsville Range of the northern Wasatch Mountains (Shultz et al, 2015)

Threats or limiting factors

Potentially threated byclimate change as well as by recreational impacts. These plants all grow on north facing cliffs, mostly growing in cracks of the rocks. The main recreational threats are most likely from rock climbers, although no routes were observed in the survey area.

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Multicellular organisms that are autotrophic or make complex carbohydrates from basic constituents. Most use photosynthesis.

Flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary

Multicellular organisms that develop from the fertilization of an egg by a sperm. Heterotrophic - obtain food by ingestion.

Have skulls and backbones.

Cold blooded, lay eggs on land

Have feathers and lay eggs

Invertebrates with an exoskeleton, jointed appendages, and segmented bodies

Animals having 3 pair of legs, 3 body sections, generally 1 or 2 pair of wings, 1 pair of antennae.

Soft bodied animals with an internal or external shell and a toothed tongue or radula. Have a mantle that lines and secretes the shell and a muscular foot that allows for movement.

Two hinged lateral shells and a wedged shaped "foot". Bivalves lack tentacles and a head.


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