Packera neomexicana
Packera bernardina
New Mexico groundsel
San Bernardino ragwort
1 or 2–5+, clustered, lanate- or arachno-tomentose or glabrescent.
1 (per rosette, rosettes clustered), lanate-tomentose to glabrescent.
(often abaxially cyanic) petiolate (petioles hairy to glabrate);
blades ovate to lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, 20–60+ × 10–30+ mm, bases abruptly contracted to tapering, margins subentire or denticulate to subserrate (abaxial faces usually tomentose, adaxials frequently glabrate).
(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).
gradually or abruptly reduced (proximal petiolate, similar to basals; mids and distals sessile, lanceolate, entire).
gradually reduced (sessile; spatulate to linear, densely tomentose).
conspicuously bracteate, usually hairy.
bracteate, densely lanate-tomentose.
(5–)8 or 13;
corolla laminae 4–10 mm.
8 or 13;
corolla laminae 8–10 mm.
40–60+;
corolla tubes 1.5–2.5 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm.
35–50+;
corolla tubes 2–2.5 mm, limbs 2–2.5 mm.
13 or 21, green or yellowish, 4–7+ mm, tomentose to glabrescent.
13 or 21, green, 6–8 mm, lanate-tomentose, glabrate distally.
conspicuous.
0.
3–20+ in open or compact, corymbiform to subumbelliform arrays (subtended by smaller arrays arising from leaf axils).
2–8+ in compact cymiform arrays.
1.5–2.5 mm, usually hirtellous on ribs, sometimes glabrous;
pappi 5–6+ mm.
0.75–1 mm, glabrous or hispid on ribs;
pappi 3–4 mm.
= 44, 46, 92.
= 46.
Packera neomexicana
Packera bernardina
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).
(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.)
1. Plants loosely tomentose or glabrate; basal leaves: blades narrowly lanceolate, margins subentire or irregularly dentate | var. mutabilis |
1. Plants usually densely lanate or woolly tomentose, seldom glabrate; basal leaves: blades ovate or broadly lanceolate, margins dentate to deeply dentate or dissected | → 2 |
2. Plants taprooted; cauline leaves conspicuous | var. neomexicana |
2. Plants rhizomatous or fibrous-rooted; cauline leaves inconspicuous (bractlike) | var. toumeyi |
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