Packera indecora
Packera greenei
elegant groundsel, rayless mountain butterweed, rayless mountain groundsel, rayless mountain ragwort
flame ragwort
1 or 2–3, loosely clustered, glabrous or glabrate.
1, irregularly lanate or tomentose.
petiolate;
blades elliptic-ovate, oblong, or subreniform, 20–50 × 10–40+ mm, bases subcordate, truncate, or cuneate, margins usually crenate-dentate to coarsely dentate-lacerate, seldom subentire.
(and proximal cauline) petiolate;
blades orbiculate, ovate, oblanceolate, or rhombic, 20–50+ × 20–40+ mm, bases tapering, sometimes obtuse, margins coarsely dentate to crenate-dentate.
gradually reduced (petiolate, resembling basals, sublyrate or dissected; distal sessile, subentire to pinnatifid).
gradually to abruptly reduced (petioles broad-winged, clasping, blades obovate, bases tapering, margins irregularly dentate; distal sessile, linear to lanceolate, entire).
ebracteate (or bractlets inconspicuous), glabrous or glabrate.
bracteate, lanate or tomentose distally.
0 or 8–10;
corolla laminae (deep yellow) 3–5 mm.
8–10(–13);
corolla laminae (red-orange) 8–15+ mm.
60–70+;
corolla tubes 2–3 mm, limbs 2.5–3.5 mm.
35–65+;
corolla tubes 4–5 mm, limbs 5–6 mm.
13 or 21, green (tips sometimes reddish), 7–9 mm, glabrous.
21, green (tips sometimes deep red), 8–10+ mm, densely tomentose proximally, sparsely tomentose distally.
conspicuous (bractlets green, tips sometimes reddish).
conspicuous.
8–20+ in subumbelliform arrays.
1–3+.
1–2 mm, glabrous;
pappi 3–4 mm.
1.5–2.5 mm, glabrous;
pappi 8–11 mm.
= 46, 126, 176, 184.
= 40, 46, 92.
Packera indecora
Packera greenei
Packera indecora is found at relatively low elevations in eastern Canada and at middle to subalpine elevations in the western cordillera. It closely resembles P. pauciflora and it is often difficult to identify specimens in the herbarium. Biosystematic studies (J. F. Bain and J. Whitton 1994) have indicated that although they are morphologically similar, P. indecora and P. pauciflora have distinctly different physiologies and should be maintained as distinct taxa.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Of conservation concern.
Packera greenei is known from Coast Ranges of northern California. It has relatively large heads and bright orange-red ray corollas; its leaves are usually cyanic abaxially.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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