Packera neomexicana |
Packera quercetorum |
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New Mexico groundsel |
Oak Creek ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, biennials, or annuals, 20–50+ cm; fibrous-rooted, taprooted, or ± rhizomatous (bases branched, horizontal or ascending to erect). | Perennials, 60–100+ cm; taprooted (caudices subligneous, ascending to erect). | ||||||||
Stems | 1 or 2–5+, clustered, lanate- or arachno-tomentose or glabrescent. |
1 or 2–4, clustered (proximally deeply purple-tinged, distally lightly tinged), glabrous or tomentose at bases and in leaf axils. |
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Basal leaves | (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 or lyrate (pinnately lobed, lateral lobes 2–6+ pairs, their bases petioluliform, terminal lobes larger than laterals, midribs narrowly winged), 60–160+ × 20–40+ mm, bases wide, ultimate margins sharply dentate, crenate-dentate, or irregularly incised. |
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Cauline leaves | gradually or abruptly reduced (proximal petiolate, similar to basals; mids and distals sessile, lanceolate, entire). |
gradually reduced (petiolate or sessile; shallowly lobed, midribs ± winged, distals bractlike, dentate to incised). |
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Peduncles | conspicuously bracteate, usually hairy. |
ebracteate, glabrous. |
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Ray florets | (5–)8 or 13; corolla laminae 4–10 mm. |
(8–)13; corolla laminae 6–10+ mm. |
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Disc florets | 40–60+; corolla tubes 1.5–2.5 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm. |
60–70+; corolla tubes 2–3 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm. |
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Phyllaries | 13 or 21, green or yellowish, 4–7+ mm, tomentose to glabrescent. |
(13–)21, green (tips yellow), 5–7 mm, glabrous (tips sometimes hairy). |
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Calyculi | conspicuous. |
inconspicuous. |
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Heads | 3–20+ in open or compact, corymbiform to subumbelliform arrays (subtended by smaller arrays arising from leaf axils). |
15–40+ in open, cymiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | 1.5–2.5 mm, usually hirtellous on ribs, sometimes glabrous; pappi 5–6+ mm. |
1.5–2 mm, glabrous or ± scabrellous; pappi 5.5–6.5 mm. |
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2n | = 44, 46, 92. |
= 92. |
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Packera neomexicana |
Packera quercetorum |
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Phenology | Flowering mid Apr–early Jun. | |||||||||
Habitat | Rocky soils, open areas, scrub-oak and pinyon-pine forests, chaparral | |||||||||
Elevation | 800–2200 m (2600–7200 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CO; NM; UT; w Mexico
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AZ; NM
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Packera quercetorum is found only infrequently and in relatively small populations in central and southern Arizona and west-central New Mexico. The plants are robust and have probable affinities to P. multilobata. The plants have a bluish tinge when freshly collected and are distinctive in the field. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 593. | FNA vol. 20, p. 598. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Packera | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Packera | ||||||||
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Synonyms | Senecio neomexicanus | Senecio quercetorum, Senecio macropus | ||||||||
Name authority | (A. Gray) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve: Phytologia 49: 47. (1981) | (Greene) C. Jeffrey: Kew Bull. 47: 101. (1992) | ||||||||
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