Packera streptanthifolia |
Packera flettii |
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cleftleaf groundsel, Rocky Mountain butterweed, Rocky Mountain groundsel |
Flett's groundsel |
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Habit | Plants perennial, 20–50+ cm; caudices weak or stout, horizontal or suberect and fibrous-rooted. | Plants perennial, 10–40+ cm; rhizomes horizontal to erect. |
Stems | 1 or 2–5, clustered, glabrous or sometimes sparsely pubescent near base and in leaf axils. |
1 or 2–5, loosely clustered, glabrous or leaf axils sparsely pubescent. |
Basal leaves | blades oblanceolate to orbiculate; thick; turgid, bases tapering to contracted; margins dentate, dissected; entire, subentire or weakly lobulate; surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes pubescent, petiolate. |
blades obovate to ovate or sub-lyrate, bases tapering; margins deeply dissected or pinnatifid, crenate to crenate-dentate, petiolate. |
Cauline leaves | similar to basal, gradually reduced, petiolate or sessile. |
lower similar to basal; middle and upper absent or abruptly reduced distally, sessile. |
Involucres | campanulate. |
campanulate to broadly cylindric. |
Ray florets | 8 or 13; rays 5–10 mm. |
5 or 8; rays 5–10 mm. |
Disc florets | 35–60; corolla tubes 2–4 mm; limbs 2.5–4 mm. |
20–30+; corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm; limbs 2.5–3.5 mm. |
Phyllaries | (8)13 or 21, 4–7+ mm, green; tips sometimes anthocyanic; surfaces glabrous. |
(8)13, 4–7 mm, light green; tips yellowish; surfaces glabrous. |
Calyculi | conspicuous. |
0 or inconspicuous. |
Fruits | 1–2.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 3–6 mm. |
1–1.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 4–4.5 mm. |
Heads | 2–20+; in corymb- or subumbel-like arrays; peduncles glabrous or sparsely tomentose, bracteate. |
4–10+; in subumbellate; cyme-like arrays, radiate; peduncles glabrous; bracts absent or inconspicuous. |
2n | =46, 92. |
=40. |
Packera streptanthifolia |
Packera flettii |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Forests, open meadows, and valleys in dry to damp loamy soils. Flowering May–Aug. 400–2900 m. BR, BW, ECas, Lava, Owy, Sisk. ID, NV, WA; north to Yukon, northeast to Saskatchewan, east to WY, southeast to NM. Native. Packera streptanthifolia includes weakly defined “phases” that have been treated as distinct species or as varieties. Characteristics used to define those taxa often overlap and are difficult to distinguish; some phases grade into each other. |
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 324 Debra Trock |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 322 Debra Trock |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Packera streptanthifolia var. streptanthifolia, Senecio cymbalarioides, Senecio leonardii, Senecio streptanthifolius | Senecio flettii |
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