Packera hesperia |
Packera flettii |
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serpentine groundsel, Siskiyou butterweed, western ragwort |
Flett's groundsel |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 7–15 cm; caudices fibrous-rooted, relatively slender. | Plants perennial, 10–40+ cm; rhizomes horizontal to erect. |
Stems | 1, glabrous or sparsely tomentose. |
1 or 2–5, loosely clustered, glabrous or leaf axils sparsely pubescent. |
Basal leaves | blades ovate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, bases tapering, sometimes obtuse; margins entire, subentire, or dentate, petiolate. |
blades obovate to ovate or sub-lyrate, bases tapering; margins deeply dissected or pinnatifid, crenate to crenate-dentate, petiolate. |
Cauline leaves | lower similar to basal; middle and upper abruptly reduced and bract-like, sessile and clasping. |
lower similar to basal; middle and upper absent or abruptly reduced distally, sessile. |
Involucres | cylindric; bractlets narrow, red-tinged. |
campanulate to broadly cylindric. |
Ray florets | (8)13; rays 6–10+ mm; deep yellow. |
5 or 8; rays 5–10 mm. |
Disc florets | 35–50+; corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm; limbs 3–4 mm. |
20–30+; corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm; limbs 2.5–3.5 mm. |
Phyllaries | (13)21, green; tips red or dark red; surfaces densely tomentose basally. |
(8)13, 4–7 mm, light green; tips yellowish; surfaces glabrous. |
Calyculi | conspicuous. |
0 or inconspicuous. |
Fruits | 1.5–2 mm, glabrous; pappi 5–6 mm. |
1–1.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 4–4.5 mm. |
Heads | 1–4+; in corymb-like arrays; peduncles densely lanatetomentose; bracts red-tinged. |
4–10+; in subumbellate; cyme-like arrays, radiate; peduncles glabrous; bracts absent or inconspicuous. |
2n | =46. |
=40. |
Packera hesperia |
Packera flettii |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Serpentine, open woodlands. Flowering Apr–Jun. 300–1400 m. Sisk. CA. Native. Until collections of this species were made in Del Norte County in California, Packera hesperia was known only from two counties in southern Oregon. It has since been listed as a species of conservation concern in California. |
Exposed slopes, rocky or gravelly soils. Flowering Jun–Jul. 300–1100 m. CR. WA. Native. In Oregon, P. flettii is known only from the Coast Range and is rarely collected there. It is also rare in Washington but has a much wider distribution. This species has a unique chromosome number for the genus (2n=40) and is not known to hybridize with other species. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 323 Debra Trock |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 322 Debra Trock |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Senecio hesperius | Senecio flettii |
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