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Slender goldenweed
Pyrrocoma racemosa var. paniculata
NatureServe conservation status
Global (G-rank): G5T4
State (S-rank): S1
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Species range
Estimate from download of data from Utah Rare Plant Database on July 18, 2024.
Geocat 5 observations: Extent of Occurrence: 22,646.752 km2.
Historic observations over 40 years old were not used.
Saline meadows and playas or playa remnants, with saltgrass, Muhlenbergia asperifolia, and Allenrolfea, Sporobolus airoides and other plants of fine-textured saline or alkaline substrates at 1370 to 1530 m in Cache, Duchesne, Millard, and Utah counties, Utah as well as Oregon to Idaho, south to California and Nevada (Welsh et al. 2015).
Threats or limiting factors
The main threats are from habitat loss due to development and in the past conversion of habitat to farmland. Additional threats are from habitat degradation due to continued grazing impacts, water diversions and drought. Threats compiled using observations and notes from Utah Rare Plant Database and Utah Geospatial Resource Center GIS Data downloaded in 2024. Severity of impacts are not well known so ranges are provided where appropriate. In recent years development in Utah county and near other metropolitan areas in Utah has rapidly expanded. At least one known occurrence is now a under housing and others are in agricultural fields that may be developed in the future. On BLM administered lands unprotected springs are subject to much trampling and disturbance by livestock accessing water. The K. E. Bullock State Wildlife Area should be surveyed for this plant, because there is an occurrence from adjacent private property. The occurrence near Richfield is farmland where aerials show meanders from the Seiver River that have now been diverted.
