Burke: Packera indecora

	Packera indecora
	rayless mountain butterweed, elegant groundsel
Habit	Glabrous perennial with fibrous roots, 3-8 dm. tall.
Leaves	Thin, the basal one elliptic or broadly ovate, usually tapering at the base, petiolate, serrate or sometimes incised; cauline leaves sharply incised-pinnatifid, the lobes irregularly again few toothed, reduced and becoming sessile upward.
Flowers	Heads 6-40, yellow, discoid or rarely with short rays; involucre 7-10 mm. high, its bracts often with purple tips.

	Packera indecora
Identification notes	The thin, serrate basal leaves and ray-less yellow flowers should distinguish this species.
Flowering time	July-August
Habitat	Damp meadows to stream banks and moist woodlands, from the valleys to the subalpine.
Distribution	Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in northern Washington; Alaska to Washington, and also in California, east to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and in the Great Lakes Region, also east across Canada to the Atlantic Coast. [WildflowerSearch map] [BONAP county map]
Origin	Native
Conservation status	Not of concern
Sibling taxa	P. bolanderi, P. cana, P. contermina, P. flettii, P. macounii, P. pauciflora, P. paupercula, P. porteri, P. pseudaurea, P. streptanthifolia, P. subnuda
Web links	Local floras: BC, CA, WA Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos, Flora NW, PNW Herbaria WildflowerSearch iNaturalist (observations) USDA Plants Database LBJ Wildflower Center SEINet Plants of the World Online Encyclopedia of Life Wikipedia Google Image Search

Packera indecora

rayless mountain butterweed, elegant groundsel

Habit

Glabrous perennial with fibrous roots, 3-8 dm. tall.

Leaves

Thin, the basal one elliptic or broadly ovate, usually tapering at the base, petiolate, serrate or sometimes incised;

cauline leaves sharply incised-pinnatifid, the lobes irregularly again few toothed, reduced and becoming sessile upward.

Flowers

Heads 6-40, yellow, discoid or rarely with short rays;

involucre 7-10 mm. high, its bracts often with purple tips.

Packera indecora

Identification notes

The thin, serrate basal leaves and ray-less yellow flowers should distinguish this species.

Flowering time

July-August

Habitat

Damp meadows to stream banks and moist woodlands, from the valleys to the subalpine.

Distribution

Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in northern Washington; Alaska to Washington, and also in California, east to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and in the Great Lakes Region, also east across Canada to the Atlantic Coast.

[WildflowerSearch map]

[BONAP county map]

Origin

Native

Conservation status

Not of concern

Sibling taxa