Packera breweri |
Packera cynthioides |
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Brewer's ragwort |
White Mountain ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials or biennials, 40–100+ cm; fibrous-rooted (caudices erect, stout). | Perennials, 20–40+ cm; rhizomatous (rhizomes horizontal to erect). |
Stems | 1, glabrous or leaf axils tomentose. |
1 or 2–3, clustered, densely lanate-tomentose or canescent, tufts of arachnoid tomentum in leaf axils, or glabrescent. |
Basal leaves | (and proximal cauline) petiolate; blades spatulate to obovate (pinnately lobed, terminal lobes ovate to oblong, lateral lobes 2–6+ pairs, smaller, midribs narrowly winged), 100–300+ × 20–50(–80+) mm, bases contracted to tapering, ultimate margins crenate or dentate to lacerate (faces glabrous). |
(thick, leathery) petiolate; blades narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 25–100+ × 5–20 mm, bases tapering, margins entire, subentire, dentate, or wavy (adaxial faces early glabrescent). |
Cauline leaves | gradually reduced (petiolate or sessile; obovate, irregularly incised to subpinnate, terminal lobes narrow). |
gradually reduced (sessile; lanceolate to oblanceolate, entire or wavy). |
Peduncles | usually ebracteate (rarely with 1–2 bractlets), glabrous. |
0 (or relatively reduced, then densely tomentose). |
Ray florets | 8–10+; corolla laminae 10–15+ mm. |
(5–)8; corolla laminae 8–10+ mm. |
Disc florets | 45–60+; corolla tubes 3–3.5 mm, limbs 4–4.5 mm. |
35–45+; corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm. |
Phyllaries | 13 or 21, green, 7–9+ mm, glabrous. |
(8–)13, green (tips red), 3–6 mm, densely tomentose proximally, glabrate distally. |
Calyculi | inconspicuous. |
inconspicuous (bractlets red-tipped). |
Heads | 15–50+ in corymbiform arrays. |
10–30+ in open or congested, cymiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 2–2.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 6–7 mm. |
1–1.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 5–6 mm. |
2n | = 46. |
= 46. |
Packera breweri |
Packera cynthioides |
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Phenology | Flowering mid Apr–late May. | Flowering late Jul–mid Sep. |
Habitat | Dry, rocky soils, partially shaded or protected areas, grasslands, oak savannas, roadsides, disturbed areas | Loose rocky soils, steep slopes, subalpine and pine-juniper forests |
Elevation | 200–1500 m (700–4900 ft) | 2200–2900 m (7200–9500 ft) |
Distribution |
CA
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NM
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Discussion | Packera breweri is known only from Coast Ranges from San Francisco Bay to Los Angeles County and along the eastern edges of the San Joaquin Valley. Populations are relatively small and sporadic; the plants appear not to hybridize with other species of Packera. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Packera cynthioides blooms later than other Packera species at the same latitudes. It is noted by collectors as usually growing on north- or west-facing slopes in limestone-derived soils. Its cauline leaves are well developed and held at a shallow angle to the stem, giving the plant a more “leafy” aspect than other members of the genus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 580. | FNA vol. 20, p. 583. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Packera | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Packera |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Senecio breweri | Senecio cynthioides, Senecio fendleri var. subintegra, Senecio wrightii |
Name authority | (Burtt Davy) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve: Phytologia 49: 46. (1981) | (Greene) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve: Phytologia 49: 46. (1981) |
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