Packera neomexicana
Packera hartiana
New Mexico groundsel
Hart's ragwort
1 or 2–5+, clustered, lanate- or arachno-tomentose or glabrescent.
1 or 2–3, clustered, bases and leaf axils usually loosely floccose-tomentose, sometimes glabrate.
(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).
petiolate;
blades ovate to obovate or suborbiculate, 30–80 × 20–40+ mm, bases tapering, sometimes obtuse or contracted, margins serrate-dentate to weakly crenate (abaxial faces sometimes hairy).
gradually or abruptly reduced (proximal petiolate, similar to basals; mids and distals sessile, lanceolate, entire).
gradually reduced (petiolate, often sublyrate, sometimes weakly pinnatisect; mids and distals sessile, pinnatisect to subentire).
conspicuously bracteate, usually hairy.
bracteate, loosely tomentose or glabrescent.
(5–)8 or 13;
corolla laminae 4–10 mm.
8 or 13;
corolla laminae 5–8 mm.
40–60+;
corolla tubes 1.5–2.5 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm.
50–65+;
corolla tubes 2–4 mm, limbs 2.5–3.5 mm.
13 or 21, green or yellowish, 4–7+ mm, tomentose to glabrescent.
(13–)21, green, 5–7 mm, glabrous or sparsely tomentose.
conspicuous.
0.
3–20+ in open or compact, corymbiform to subumbelliform arrays (subtended by smaller arrays arising from leaf axils).
3–9+ in open, corymbiform arrays.
1.5–2.5 mm, usually hirtellous on ribs, sometimes glabrous;
pappi 5–6+ mm.
1–2 mm, glabrous;
pappi 3.5–4.5 mm.
= 44, 46, 92.
= 44.
Packera neomexicana
Packera hartiana
Varieties 3 (3 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Packera hartiana resembles both P. paupercula and P. plattensis; it is separated from both on the basis of geography and morphologic characters. New Mexico populations were formerly treated as P. quaerens; the morphologic characters used to separate the two entities vary and overlap.
(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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