Montana's large size, 147,046 square miles (380,850 km2), and diverse Ecological systems of Montana make it home to a diverse array of flora and fauna.
This is a list of flora and fauna of Montana related articles.
- Club-mosses and mosses of Montana
- There are at least 23 species of Club-mosses and 153 species of Mosses found in Montana.,[1][2]
- Coniferous plants of Montana
- There are at least 20 species of Gymnosperms or Coniferous plants in Montana.[3]
- Ferns of Montana
- Horsetails of Montana
- Lichens of Montana
- There are at least 41 species of lichens, Ascomycota known to exist in Montana.[4]
- Dicotyledons of Montana
- There are at least 2109 species of dicotyledons found in Montana according to the Montana Field Guide.[5]
- Monocotyledons of Montana
- There are at least 615 species of Monocotyledons found in Montana.[6]
Fauna
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- Amphibians and Reptiles of Montana
- Birds of Montana
- Molluscs of Montana
- There are at least 42 species of freshwater bivalves (clams and mussels) known in Montana.[8] There are also at least 155 species of gastropods found in Montana.[9]
- Crustaceans of Montana
- There are at least 30 species of crustaceans found in Montana.[10]
- Fish of Montana
- Flatworms and leeches of Montana
- Insects of Montana
- Mammals of Montana
- Millipedes of Montana
Notes
edit- ^ "Montana Field Guide-Club-mosses". Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
- ^ "Montana Field Guide-Mosses". Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Retrieved 2010-12-20.
- ^ "Montana Field Guide-Conifers". Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
- ^ "Montana Field Guide-Sac Fungi". Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Retrieved 2010-12-07.
- ^ "Montana Field Guide-Dicotyledoneae". Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
- ^ "Montana Field Guide-Monocots". Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Retrieved 2010-12-10.
- ^ "Montana Audubon-Official State Bird List". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-07-19.
- ^ "Montana Field Guide-Bivalvia". Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Retrieved 2010-12-26.
- ^ "Gastropoda". Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved 2011-07-22.
- ^ "Crustacea". Montana Field Guide. Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Retrieved December 8, 2010.
- ^ "Montana Field Guide". Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
- ^ "Montana Field Guide". Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Retrieved 2010-11-21.
Further reading
edit- Rydberg, Per Axel PhD (1900). Catalogue of the flora of Montana and the Yellowstone National Park (PDF). New York: New York Botanical Garden.
- Booth, W.E. (1950). Flora of Montana, Part I Conifers and Monocots. Bozeman, Montana: The Research Foundation at Montana State College.
- Wilson, Barbara L. (2008). Field Guide to the Sedges of the Pacific Northwest. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87071-197-8.
- Stebbins, Robert C. (1954). Amphibian and Reptiles of Western North America. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company.
- Werner, J. Kirwin; Bryce A. Maxell; Paul Hendricks; Dennis L. Flath (2004). Amphibians and Reptiles of Montana. Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing. ISBN 0-87842-500-4.
- Henderson, J (1924). Mollusca of Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Museum.
- "Freshwater Mussels of Montana-A Field Guide" (PDF). Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved 2010-12-28.
- Stagliano, David (2010). Freshwater Mussels in Montana: Comprehensive Results from 3 years of SWG Funded Surveys (PDF). Montana Natural Heritage Program.
- "Montana Fisheries Information System". Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Retrieved 2010-11-25.
- Burr, Brooks M.; Page, Lawrence M. (1991). A Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes : North America North of Mexico (Peterson Field Guides). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0-395-91091-9.
- Hoffman, R.S.; Pattie, D.L. (1968). A Guide to Montana Mammals. University of Montana Press.
- "Northern Rockies Natural History Guide-Mammals". University of Montana’s Division of Biological Sciences. Archived from the original on 2010-06-20. Retrieved 2010-11-23.
- Foresman, Kerry R. (2001). The Wild Mammals of Montana. American Society of Mammalogists. ISBN 1-891276-26-3.
- Picton, Harold D.; Lonner, Terry N. (2008). Montana's Wildlife Legacy-Decimation to Restoration. Bozeman, MT: Media Works Publishing. ISBN 978-0-615-18849-2.
- Putnam, Caleb; Kennedy, Gregory (2005). Montana Birds. Auburn, WA: Lone Pine Publishing International. ISBN 1-55105-463-9.
- Tekiela, Stan (2004). Birds of Montana-Field Guide. Cambridge, Minnesota: Adventure Publications. ISBN 1-59193-097-9.
- Wright, Phillip L. (Winter 1996). "Status of Rare Birds in Montana, with Comments on Known Hybrids". Northwestern Naturalist. 77 (3): 57–85. doi:10.2307/3536504. JSTOR 3536504.