Senecio integerrimus |
Senecio hydrophiloides |
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lambstongue ragwort, western groundsel |
stout meadow groundsel, sweet marsh butterweed |
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Habit | Herbs perennial or biennial, (1)2–7 dm; caudices button-like, with fleshy, fibrous, unbranched roots. | Herbs perennial or biennial, 3–10(14) dm; caudices erect, button-like, with fleshy, fibrous, unbranched roots. |
Stems | 1, loosely arachnoid-tomentose, or villous, glabrate with age. |
1, sometimes 2–4 and clustered, sometimes reddish tinged, glabrous or glabrate; young plants sometimes sparsely hairy. |
Leaves | mostly basal; cauline progressively reduced distally; ± petiolate; basal and lower cauline elliptic, lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, rounded-deltate, rarely suborbiculate, bases tapered or truncate to cordate; margins entire or dentate; distal becoming sessile and bract-like. |
mostly basal; cauline reduced distally, elliptic to broad lanceolate; firm, bases tapering; margins dentate to denticulate; surfaces glabrous; petioles often distinctly winged; distal sessile and bract-like. |
Inflorescences | corymb-like arrays; bracts 0 or inconspicuous. |
loose or congested corymb-like arrays; bracts 0 or inconspicuous. |
Involucres | urn-shaped. |
widely cylindric to campanulate. |
Ray florets | 5, rarely 0; rays 6–15(20) mm, yellow or white to pale yellow. |
0 or 3–8; rays 5–10 mm. |
Disc florets | 35–45. |
30–45. |
Phyllaries | (8)13 or 21; tips usually black, sometimes green. |
8, 13 or 21, 4–9 mm; tips black. |
Calyculi | 1–5+, inconspicuous, usually < 2 mm. |
2–5 bractlets, inconspicuous; < 2 mm. |
Fruits | 2.5–3 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes hairy along ribs. |
2–3 mm, glabrous. |
Heads | 6–15(30+). |
(6)15–30+. |
2n | =40, 80. |
=40. |
Senecio integerrimus |
Senecio hydrophiloides |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Western North America. 5 varieties; 3 varieties treated in Flora. |
Damp hillsides, meadows, seeps. Flowering Jun–Jul. 1000–1900 m. BR, BW, ECas, Lava, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to British Columbia, northeast to Alberta, east to WY, southeast to UT. Native. Plants in the western part of this species’ range tend to have single stems, more congested inflorescences, and more ray florets and have been treated by some authors as a distinct species (S. foetidus). Those further east have more stems, a looser inflorescence, and fewer ray florets. T.M. Barkley (1978) noted that these two forms intergrade so completely that they should be treated as a single species. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 339 Debra Trock |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 339 Debra Trock |
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Synonyms | Senecio foetidus, Senecio foetidus var. foetidus, Senecio foetidus var. hydrophiloides, Senecio oreganus | |
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