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Photo by Bill Gray; Becky Yaeger; Buddy Smith
Frank Smith's Violet
Viola frank-smithii
NatureServe conservation status
Global (G-rank): G1
State (S-rank): S2
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Phenology
Flowers in May to June
Species range
Endemic to cliffs and near-vertical outcrops of carbonate rock in Logan Canyon and its tributaries in Wasatch-Cache National Forest, Cache County, north-central Utah. Extent of known range is approximately 30 square km.
Threats or limiting factors
Some occurrences are threatened by recreational rock-climbing activity: a 1994 survey identified potential or actual impacts in several areas. Although a pre-1992 draft management plan for climbing and rappelling was written by the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, it has never been implemented (Franklin 2005). In 2004, a climbing book was published that includes many new Logan Canyon climbing routes, so the threat from climbing remains. Fire may represent the most significant threat to individual occurrences (by removing shading of the cliff-base habitat by Douglas-fir forest).
