Hudsonia montana Nutt. (1818:5)
Mountain golden-heather, Mountain hudsonia
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Hudsonia ericoides subsp. montana (Nutt.) N.H.Nick. & J.T.Skog in Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 59: 456 (1972 publ. 1973)
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in 1976 (Lucas & Synge, 1978:131)
Distribution
Burke County & McDowell County, North Carolina, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Nuttall, T. (1818). The Genera of North American Plants 2. Philadelphia. p. 5.
Other references:
Anonymous. (1987). Mountain golden-heather discovered outside of Linville Gorge. North Carolina Natural Heritage Program Newsletter Summer/Fall: 8.
Cooper, J. E. (ed.). (1977). Endangered and Threatened Plants and Animals of North Carolina. Proc ., Symposium on Endangered and Threatened Biota of North Carolina. 1. Biological Concerns . North Carolina State Museum of Natural History , Raleigh, North Carolina. p. 112.
Flora of North America Editorial Committee. (2015). Flora of North America North of Mexico. Vol. 6. Magnoliophyta: Cucurbitaceae to Droserceae. Oxford University Press, New York. 496 pp + xxiv.
Gross, K., Lockwood, J. R., Frost, C. C. and Morris, M. F. (1998). Modeling controlled burning and trampling reduction for conservation of Hudsonia montana. Conservation Biology 12(6): 1291-1301.
Kartesz, J. T. (1994). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 2nd edition. 2 vols. Timber Press, Portland, OR.
Kartesz, J. T. (1999). A synonymized checklist and atlas with biological attributes for the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. First edition. In: Kartesz, J.T., and C.A. Meacham. Synthesis of the North American Flora, Version 1.0. North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, N.C.
Kartesz, J. T. and Kartesz, R. (1980). A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada and Greenland. Vol. 2. The biota of North America. Univ. of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. 500 pp.
Kruckeberg, A. R. and Rabinowitz, D. (1985). Biological aspects of endemism in higher plants. Ecological Systems 16: 447-479.
Lucas, Grenville Llewellyn and Synge, Hugh (compilers). (1978). The IUCN Plant Red Data Book. Morges, Switzerland: IUCN. 540 pp. [pp. 117-118]
Morse, L. E. (1979a). Report on the conservation status of Hudsonia montana, a candidate endangered species. New York Botanical Garden, Cooperative Parks Study Unit, Bronx, NY. 37 pp.
Morse, L. E. (1979b). Systematics and ecological biogeography of the genus Hudsonia (Cistaceae), the sand heathers. Ph. D. Dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Morse, L. E. (in press). Abstract in Ohio Acad. Sci.
Pendergrass, L. (1983). Mountain golden heather recovery plan. USFW, Asheville Field Office.
POWO. (2025). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 3 March 2025]
Radford, A. E., Ahles, H. E. and Bell, C. R. (1968). Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. Pp. 718-719.
Skog, J. T. and Nickerson, N. H. (1972). Variation and Speciation in the Genus Hudsonia. Ann. Missouri bot. Gdn 59(3): 454-464. (as H. ericoides ssp . montana).
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). (2023). Initiation of 5-Year Status Reviews for 67 Southeastern Species. Notice of initiation of reviews; request for information. Federal Register 88(91): 30324-30328.
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