Packera sanguisorboides
Packera fendleri
burnet ragwort
Fendler's ragwort, notchleaf groundsel
1 or 2–3, clustered, glabrous or leaf axils tomentose.
1 or multiple (crowded to subcespitose), floccose-tomentose or glabrescent.
(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.
petiolate;
blades lanceolate to oblanceolate, 30–60+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering, margins shallowly, evenly pinnatifid to pinnatisect or wavy (adaxial faces floccose-tomentose or subglabrescent).
gradually reduced (petiolate or sessile; lyrate to sublyrate, midribs winged, terminal lobes weakly distinct, shallowly dentate).
gradually reduced (sessile; lanceolate to oblanceolate, pinnatisect to wavy).
inconspicuously bracteate, glabrous or tomentose proximally.
bracteate, densely to irregularly floccose.
8;
corolla laminae 6–12 mm.
6–8+;
corolla laminae 5–7 mm.
35–50+;
corolla tubes 2.5–3.5 mm, limbs 2–3 mm.
30–40+;
corolla tubes 2.5–3 mm, limbs, 2.5–3.5 mm.
13, bright green (tips light green to yellow), 4–7 mm, glabrous.
13, green, 5–7 mm, floccose proximally to glabrescent distally.
inconspicuous.
0 or inconspicuous (bractlets red-tinged).
3–8+ in subumbelliform or compound, cymiform arrays (of 2–4+ cymiform clusters of 2–5+ heads each).
6–25+ in open or compact, corymbiform arrays.
1.5–2 mm, glabrous;
pappi 4.5–5.5 mm.
2.5–3 mm, glabrous;
pappi 4–5 mm.
= 46.
= 46.
Packera sanguisorboides
Packera fendleri
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 fendleri is abundant, almost weedy in the southern Rocky Mountains. It thrives in a wide range of elevations and in a wide variety of habitats; flowering times vary. It frequently grows in close association with other species of Packera and may hybridize with them.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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