Packera glabella |
Packera streptanthifolia |
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butterweed |
cleft-leaf groundsel, Rocky Mountain butterweed, Rocky Mountain groundsel |
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Habit | Annuals or biennials, 20–70+ cm; fibrous-rooted (caudices relatively short, weak). | Perennials, 10–50+ cm; fibrous-rooted (caudices weak to stout, horizontal to suberect). |
Stems | 1 (striated, frequently hollow, often pink- to purple-tinged), glabrous or leaf axils sparsely tomentose. |
1 or 2–5, clustered, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely floccose-tomentose proximally and in leaf axils. |
Basal leaves | (and proximal cauline) obscurely petiolate; blades obovate to oblanceolate, sometimes lyrate (lateral lobes to 5 pairs, terminal lobes larger than laterals), 50–150+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering, ultimate margins crenate to irregularly undulate. |
(and proximal cauline, relatively thick and turgid) petiolate; blades spatulate to oblanceolate, or ovate to orbiculate, 20–40+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering to abruptly contracted or subcordate, margins entire, crenate, dentate, or weakly lobulate (faces usually glabrous, sometimes hairy). |
Cauline leaves | gradually reduced (weakly clasping, similar to basal). |
gradually to abruptly reduced (± petiolate or sessile; entire or subentire). |
Peduncles | bracteate, glabrous or bases tomentose. |
bracteate, glabrous or sparsely tomentose. |
Ray florets | (8–)13; corolla laminae 7–9 mm. |
8 or 13; corolla laminae 5–10 mm. |
Disc florets | 35–50+; corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm, limbs 2–3 mm. |
35–60+; corolla tubes 2–4 mm, limbs 2.5–4 mm. |
Phyllaries | (13–)21, green, 5–7 mm, glabrous. |
(8–)13 or 21, green (tips sometimes cyanic), 4–7+ mm, glabrous. |
Calyculi | conspicuous (bractlets 2.5–4 mm). |
conspicuous. |
Heads | 8–30+ in umbelliform or cymiform arrays (robust plants with multiple arrays). |
2–20+ in loose, corymbiform or subumbelliform arrays. |
Cypselae | 1–1.5 mm, sparsely hirtellous on ribs or glabrous; pappi 3–4 mm. |
1–2.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 3–6 mm. |
2n | = 46. |
= 46, 92. |
Packera glabella |
Packera streptanthifolia |
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Phenology | Flowering (Feb–)mid Mar–late May. | Flowering late May–late Aug. |
Habitat | Open wet areas, edges of woodlands, stream banks, roadsides, meadows, marshes, fallow fields | Forests, open meadows, valleys, dry to damp and loamy soils |
Elevation | 0–600 m (0–2000 ft) | 1000–3400 m (3300–11200 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; FL; GA; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MO; MS; NC; NE; OH; OK; SC; TN; TX
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CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; SK; YT
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Discussion | Packera glabella is common and almost weedy in wet, partially shaded places. The hollow, striated stems of P. glabella are distinctive. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Packera streptanthifolia is widespread and variable throughout the Western Cordillera. It includes weakly defined phases that have been treated as distinct species or as varieties. Characteristics used to delimit those taxa often overlap and are difficult to score; some “phases” grade into each other. Northern populations are sometimes segregated as a distinct taxon (e.g., Senecio streptanthifolia var. borealis; J. F. Bain 1988). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 588. | FNA vol. 20, p. 599. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Packera | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Packera |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Senecio glabellus, Senecio carolinianus, Senecio densiflorus, Senecio lobatus, Senecio lyratus, Senecio mississipianus | Senecio streptanthifolius, P. streptanthifolia var. borealis, Senecio adamsii, Senecio aureus var. borealis, Senecio cognatus, Senecio cymbalarioides, Senecio cymbalarioides var. borealis, Senecio cymbalarioides var. streptanthifolius, Senecio fulgens, Senecio jonesii, Senecio leonardii, Senecio longipetiolatus, Senecio oödes, Senecio platylobus, Senecio rydbergii, Senecio streptanthifolius var. borealis, Senecio streptanthifolius var. kluanei, Senecio streptanthifolius var. laetiflorus, Senecio streptanthifolius var. oödes, Senecio streptanthifolius var. rubricaulis, Senecio streptanthifolius var. wallowensis, Senecio subcuneatus, Senecio suksdorfii, Senecio wardii |
Name authority | (Poiret) C. Jeffrey: Kew Bull. 47: 101. (1992) | (Greene) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve: Phytologia 49: 48. (1981) |
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