Packera fendleri
Packera contermina
Fendler's ragwort, notchleaf groundsel
dwarf arctic butterweed, high alpine butterweed, northwestern groundsel
1 or multiple (crowded to subcespitose), floccose-tomentose or glabrescent.
1 or 2–3, clustered, bases floccose-tomentose, leaf axils tomentose, glabrous elsewhere.
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).
(thick, fleshy) petiolate;
blades usually ovate, oblong, or spatulate, sometimes sublyrate, 20–50+ × 20–40+ mm, bases tapering (to winged petioles) or abruptly contracted to subcordate (petioles narrow), margins crenate, coarsely serrate, or subentire.
gradually reduced (sessile; lanceolate to oblanceolate, pinnatisect to wavy).
(often cyanic) gradually reduced (sessile, not clasping; lanceolate to linear, usually irregularly and shallowly lobed, rarely entire).
bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.
conspicuously bracteate, glabrous.
6–8+;
corolla laminae 5–7 mm.
10–12;
corolla laminae 8–14+ mm.
30–40+;
corolla tubes 2.5–3 mm, limbs, 2.5–3.5 mm.
55–75+;
corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm, limbs 3–4 mm.
13, green, 5–7 mm, floccose proximally to glabrescent distally.
21, deep red or green (tips reddish), 8–12+ mm, white-tomentose proximally.
0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).
conspicuous (tips of bractlets often purple).
6–25+ in open or compact, corymbiform arrays.
1–2(–5+).
2.5–3 mm, glabrous;
pappi 4–5 mm.
1–1.25 mm, glabrous;
pappi 4–7 mm.
= 46.
= 160+.
Packera fendleri
Packera contermina
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.)
Packera contermina grows in rocky areas and produces relatively short rhizomes and abundant thin fibrous roots. In mesic sites, the rhizomes are more robust and the fibrous roots are fewer. This taxon has been treated as part of P. cymbalaria or P. subnuda. Morphologic and cytologic data lend support to its recognition at species rank.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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