Packera sanguisorboides
Packera cana
burnet ragwort
woolly butterweed, woolly groundsel
1 or 2–3, clustered, glabrous or leaf axils tomentose.
1 (per rosette, rosettes clustered), densely lanate or canescent.
(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.
(and proximal cauline) petiolate;
blades ovate or elliptic to lanceolate, 25–50+ × 10–30 mm, bases tapering, margins entire or irregularly undulate to weakly dentate (abaxial faces persistently lanate, adaxial lanate to subglabrescent).
gradually reduced (petiolate or sessile; lyrate to sublyrate, midribs winged, terminal lobes weakly distinct, shallowly dentate).
gradually reduced (petiolate or sessile, then weakly clasping; elliptic to lanceolate, entire or weakly dentate).
inconspicuously bracteate, glabrous or tomentose proximally.
bracteate, usually densely lanate to floccose-tomentose (sometimes subglabrescent).
8;
corolla laminae 6–12 mm.
8–10 (or 13);
corolla laminae 8–10+ mm.
35–50+;
corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm, limbs 2–3 mm.
35–50+;
corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm.
13, bright green (tips light green to yellow), 4–7 mm, glabrous.
13 or 21, green, 5–8+ mm, densely tomentose.
inconspicuous.
inconspicuous (bractlets tomentose).
3–8+ in subumbelliform or compound, cymiform arrays (of 2–4+ cymiform clusters of 2–5+ heads each).
8–15+ in corymbiform arrays.
1.5–2 mm, glabrous;
pappi 4.5–5.5 mm.
2.5–3.5+ mm, glabrous;
pappi 4.5–7 mm.
= 46.
= 46, 92.
Packera sanguisorboides
Packera cana
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.)
Packera cana is found in a wide variety of habitats and in a wide range of elevations throughout the western Cordillera and into the High Plains. Morphology is relatively uniform throughout its range except that alpine specimens are notably dwarfed and are often mistaken for P. werneriifolia, which differs by its consistently scapiform habit.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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