Packera dimorphophylla |
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splitleaf groundsel |
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Habit | Perennials, 10–30+ cm; fibrous-rooted (caudices horizontal to erect, relatively short and stout). | ||||||||
Stems | usually 1, rarely 2–3, clustered, glabrous. |
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Basal leaves | (relatively thick and turgid) petiolate (petioles broad-winged or narrow, delicate); blades ovate, ovate-orbiculate, oblong-lanceolate, orbiculate, suborbiculate, reniform, or subreniform, 10–50+ × 10–40 mm, bases tapering or subcordate to abruptly contracted, margins entire or crenate. |
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Cauline leaves | gradually reduced (proximal and mid sometimes as large as or larger than basal, sessile, oblanceolate to obovate, sometimes lyrate, sometimes auriculate and/or clasping, subentire to irregularly dissected; distal usually sessile, bractlike, sometimes larger). |
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Peduncles | inconspicuously bracteate or ebracteate, glabrous. |
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Ray florets | 8 or 13; corolla laminae (deep yellow to orange) 5–8+ mm. |
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Disc florets | 45–60+; corolla tubes 2–3 mm, limbs 2.5–3.5 mm. |
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Phyllaries | (8–)13 or 21, green (tips cyanic), 5–7+ mm, glabrous. |
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Calyculi | conspicuous (bases of bractlets swollen). |
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Heads | 1–6+ in congested, corymbiform or subumbelliform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 0.75–1.5 mm, glabrous, pappi 3–4 mm. |
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2n | = 46. |
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Packera dimorphophylla |
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Distribution |
CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; UT; WY
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 584. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Packera | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Senecio dimorphophyllus | ||||||||
Name authority | (Greene) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve: Phytologia 49: 46. (1981) | ||||||||
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