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burnet ragwort

Habit Perennials or biennials, 30–50+ cm; ± fibrous-rooted (bases creeping, ascending to erect).
Stems

1 or 2–3, clustered, glabrous or leaf axils tomentose.

Basal leaves

(and proximal cauline) petiolate;

blades broadly oblanceolate (pinnately lobed, lateral lobes 2–3+ pairs, their bases petioluliform, terminal lobes larger than laterals, ovate to reniform, midribs not winged), 60–120+ × 20–60 mm, bases contracted, ultimate margins crenate to crenate-dentate.

Cauline leaves

gradually reduced (petiolate or sessile; lyrate to sublyrate, midribs winged, terminal lobes weakly distinct, shallowly dentate).

Peduncles

inconspicuously bracteate, glabrous or tomentose proximally.

Ray florets

8;

corolla laminae 6–12 mm.

Disc florets

35–50+;

corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm, limbs 2–3 mm.

Phyllaries

13, bright green (tips light green to yellow), 4–7 mm, glabrous.

Calyculi

inconspicuous.

Heads

3–8+ in subumbelliform or compound, cymiform arrays (of 2–4+ cymiform clusters of 2–5+ heads each).

Cypselae

1.5–2 mm, glabrous;

pappi 4.5–5.5 mm.

2n

= 46.

Packera sanguisorboides

Phenology Flowering late Jul–mid Sep.
Habitat Damp, open meadows, spruce-aspen forests
Elevation 2700–3700 m (8900–12100 ft)
Distribution
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NM
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Discussion

Packera sanguisorboides is known from the San Juan and Sangre de Cristo mountains of northern New Mexico, the Magdalena Mountains of western New Mexico, and the Sacramento Mountains of southern Lincoln and Otero counties. It may have affinities with P. coahuilensis Greenman.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 598.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Packera
Sibling taxa
P. anonyma, P. antennariifolia, P. aurea, P. bernardina, P. bolanderi, P. breweri, P. cana, P. cardamine, P. castoreus, P. clevelandii, P. contermina, P. crocata, P. cymbalaria, P. cynthioides, P. debilis, P. dimorphophylla, P. eurycephala, P. fendleri, P. flettii, P. franciscana, P. ganderi, P. glabella, P. greenei, P. hartiana, P. hesperia, P. hyperborealis, P. indecora, P. ionophylla, P. layneae, P. macounii, P. malmstenii, P. millefolium, P. millelobata, P. multilobata, P. musiniensis, P. neomexicana, P. obovata, P. ogotorukensis, P. pauciflora, P. paupercula, P. plattensis, P. porteri, P. pseudaurea, P. quercetorum, P. schweinitziana, P. spellenbergii, P. streptanthifolia, P. subnuda, P. tampicana, P. texensis, P. tomentosa, P. tridenticulata, P. werneriifolia
Synonyms Senecio sanguisorboides
Name authority (Rydberg) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve: Phytologia 49: 48. (1981)
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