List of Dwarf-mistletoe and Sandalwood of Montana
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Santalales
Santalales is an order of flowering plants with a cosmopolitan distribution, but heavily concentrated in tropical and subtropical regions.Most have seeds without a testa, which is unusual for flowering plants...
found in Montana
Montana
Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...
. Some of these species are exotics
Introduced species
An introduced species — or neozoon, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its indigenous or native distributional range, and has arrived in an ecosystem or plant community by human activity, either deliberate or accidental...
(not native to Montana) and some species have been designated as Species of Concern.
Dwarf-mistletoes
Family: ViscaceaeViscaceae
Viscaceae is a family of flowering plants. In past decades, several systems of plant taxonomy recognized this family, notably the 1981 Cronquist system...
- American Dwarf-mistletoeArceuthobium americanumArceuthobium americanum is a species of dwarf mistletoe known as American dwarf mistletoe and lodgepole-pine dwarf mistletoe. It is a common plant of western North America where it lives in high elevation pine forests. It is a parasitic plant which lives upon the Lodgepole Pine, particularly the...
, Arceuthobium americanum - Douglas-fir Dwarf-mistletoeArceuthobium douglasiiArceuthobium douglasii is a species of dwarf mistletoe known as Douglas-fir dwarf mistletoe. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to Texas to California, where it lives in forest and woodland as a parasite on Douglas-fir trees. This is a greenish shrub which is visible as a...
, Arceuthobium douglasii - Larch Dwarf-mistletoe, Arceuthobium laricis
- Limber Pine Dwarf-mistletoe, Arceuthobium cyanocarpum
- Western Dwarf-mistletoeArceuthobium campylopodumArceuthobium campylopodum is a species of dwarf mistletoe known as western dwarf mistletoe. It is native to the low to moderate elevation coniferous forests of western North America. It is a common parasite of several species of pine tree, including Jeffrey Pine, Ponderosa Pine, and Coulter Pine...
, Arceuthobium campylopodum
Sandalwood
Family: SantalaceaeSantalaceae
Santalaceae is a widely distributed family of flowering plants which, like other members of Santalales, are partially parasitic on other plants...
- Bastard ToadflaxComandraThe genus Comandra contains a single species, C. umbellata, with 4 sub-species distributed in North America and the Mediterranean. C...
, Comandra umbellata - Northern Bastard-toadflax, Geocaulon lividum
- Thesium, Thesium arvense