Packera bolanderi |
Packera neomexicana |
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Bolander's groundsel, Bolander's ragwort |
New Mexico groundsel |
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Habit | Perennials, 20–50+ cm; fibrous-rooted (caudices creeping). | Perennials, biennials, or annuals, 20–50+ cm; fibrous-rooted, taprooted, or ± rhizomatous (bases branched, horizontal or ascending to erect). | ||||||||||||
Stems | 1 or 2–3, loosely clustered, glabrous. |
1 or 2–5+, clustered, lanate- or arachno-tomentose or glabrescent. |
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Basal leaves | (and proximal cauline) petiolate; blades ± orbiculate to oblong, or lyrate (lateral lobes 1–3 pairs, sinuses usually rounded, midribs usually winged), 50–120+ × 30–70+ mm, bases cordate to subcordate, margins shallowly to deeply incised. |
(often abaxially cyanic) petiolate (petioles hairy to glabrate); blades ovate to lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 20–60+ × 10–30+ mm, bases abruptly contracted to tapering, margins subentire or denticulate to subserrate (abaxial faces usually tomentose, adaxials frequently glabrate). |
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Cauline leaves | gradually reduced (petiolate or sessile and clasping; lanceolate, incised). |
gradually or abruptly reduced (proximal petiolate, similar to basals; mids and distals sessile, lanceolate, entire). |
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Peduncles | ebracteate or inconspicuously bracteate, glabrous. |
conspicuously bracteate, usually hairy. |
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Ray florets | 8 or 13; corolla laminae 10–15+ mm. |
(5–)8 or 13; corolla laminae 4–10 mm. |
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Disc florets | 30–45+; corolla tubes 3–4 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm. |
40–60+; corolla tubes 1.5–2.5 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm. |
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Phyllaries | (8), 13, or 21, dark green, 5–8 mm, glabrous or sparsely tomentose proximally. |
13 or 21, green or yellowish, 4–7+ mm, tomentose to glabrescent. |
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Calyculi | conspicuous. |
conspicuous. |
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Heads | 8–15+ in corymbiform or subumbelliform arrays. |
3–20+ in open or compact, corymbiform to subumbelliform arrays (subtended by smaller arrays arising from leaf axils). |
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Cypselae | 2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 5–7 mm. |
1.5–2.5 mm, usually hirtellous on ribs, sometimes glabrous; pappi 5–6+ mm. |
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2n | = 46. |
= 44, 46, 92. |
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Packera bolanderi |
Packera neomexicana |
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Distribution |
CA; OR; WA
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AZ; CO; NM; UT; w Mexico
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). The two varieties of Packera bolanderi have been treated as species. The morphologic characteristics used to distinguish the varieties vary widely within some populations. Presence or absence of multicellular hairs has been used to separate the varieties; that trait is also variable. The morphologic distinction is weak; habitat and elevation records lend support for recognizing two varieties. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 579. | FNA vol. 20, p. 593. | ||||||||||||
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Synonyms | Senecio bolanderi | Senecio neomexicanus | ||||||||||||
Name authority | (A. Gray) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve: Phytologia 49: 45. (1981) | (A. Gray) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve: Phytologia 49: 47. (1981) | ||||||||||||
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