Packera fendleri |
Packera bernardina |
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Fendler's ragwort, notchleaf groundsel |
San Bernardino ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, 10–40+ cm; rhizomatous (rhizomes horizontal to suberect, branched). | Perennials, 15–30+ cm; fibrous-rooted (caudices branched, erect to suberect). |
Stems | 1 or multiple (crowded to subcespitose), floccose-tomentose or glabrescent. |
1 (per rosette, rosettes clustered), lanate-tomentose to glabrescent. |
Basal leaves | petiolate; blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 30–60+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering, margins shallowly, evenly pinnatifid to pinnatisect or wavy (adaxial faces floccose-tomentose or subglabrescent). |
(and proximal cauline) petiolate; blades obovate to broadly spatulate, 5–20+ × 10–15 mm, bases tapering, margins subentire or dentate apically (faces lanate-tomentose to glabrescent). |
Cauline leaves | gradually reduced (sessile; lanceolate to oblanceolate, pinnatisect to wavy). |
gradually reduced (sessile; spatulate to linear, densely tomentose). |
Peduncles | bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose. |
bracteate, densely lanate-tomentose. |
Ray florets | 6–8+; corolla laminae 5–7 mm. |
8 or 13; corolla laminae 8–10 mm. |
Disc florets | 30–40+; corolla tubes 2.5–3 mm, limbs, 2.5–3.5 mm. |
35–50+; corolla tubes 2–2.5 mm, limbs 2–2.5 mm. |
Phyllaries | 13, green, 5–7 mm, floccose proximally to glabrescent distally. |
13 or 21, green, 6–8 mm, lanate-tomentose, glabrate distally. |
Calyculi | 0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged). |
0. |
Heads | 6–25+ in open or compact, corymbiform arrays. |
2–8+ in compact cymiform arrays. |
Cypselae | 2.5–3 mm, glabrous; pappi 4–5 mm. |
0.75–1 mm, glabrous or hispid on ribs; pappi 3–4 mm. |
2n | = 46. |
= 46. |
Packera fendleri |
Packera bernardina |
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Phenology | Flowering late May–early Oct. | Flowering late May–late Jul. |
Habitat | Steep slopes, loose, dry rocky or gravelly soils, along streams, open forests, disturbed sites | Dry rocky slopes, duff of pine forests |
Elevation | 1600–3200 m (5200–10500 ft) | 1700–2200 m (5600–7200 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; NM; WY
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CA |
Discussion | Packera fendleri is abundant, almost weedy in the southern Rocky Mountains. It thrives in a wide range of elevations and in a wide variety of habitats; flowering times vary. It frequently grows in close association with other species of Packera and may hybridize with them. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Packera bernardina is known only from the San Bernardino Mountains and has been collected most frequently from Bear Valley. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 587. | FNA vol. 20, p. 579. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Packera | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Packera |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Senecio fendleri, Senecio canovirens, Senecio fendleri var. molestus, Senecio nelsonii, Senecio rosulatus, Senecio salicinus | Senecio bernardinus, Senecio bernardinus var. sparsilobatus, Senecio ionophyllus var. bernardinus, Senecio ionophyllus var. sparsilobatus, Senecio sparsilobatus |
Name authority | (A. Gray) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve: Phytologia 49: 46. (1981) | (Greene) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve: Phytologia 49: 45. (1981) |
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