Packera sanguisorboides |
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burnet ragwort |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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Synonyms | Senecio sanguisorboides |
Name authority | (Rydberg) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve: Phytologia 49: 48. (1981) |
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