Packera tampicana
Great Plains ragwort
1 or 2–6+, clustered (bases cyanic), glabrous or leaf axils sparsely tomentose.
(and proximal cauline) petiolate;
blades oblanceolate to spatulate (usually pinnately lobed, lateral lobes 1–6+ pairs, their bases petioluliform, terminal lobes usually larger than laterals, often reniform to ± orbiculate, midribs sometimes ± winged and/or toothed between the primary lobes), 40–120+ × 10–30+ mm, bases ± cuneate, ultimate margins subentire or irregularly crenate, dentate, or lobed.
gradually reduced (± petiolate or sessile, clasping; often auriculate, pinnately dissected to pinnately lobed).
bracteate, glabrous.
8 or 13;
corolla laminae 3–7 mm.
30–45(–100+);
corolla tubes 1.5–2.5 mm, limbs (1.5–)2.5–3.5 mm.
13 or 21, green (tips sometimes reddish), 3–7 mm, glabrous.
inconspicuous or 0.
4–25+ in corymbiform arrays.
1–1.5 mm, hirtellous on ribs;
pappi 3–5 mm.
= 46.
Packera tampicana
Packera tampicana is fairly widespread along the Gulf Coastal Plain and north and in Mexico. Morphologically, P. tampicana most closely resembles P. glabella; the former grows in very wet, sandy or clay soils and open sunlight, the latter grows in drier habitats, usually in partial shade.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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