Senecio amplectens |
Senecio astephanus |
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alpine groundsel, showy alpine ragwort |
San Gabriel ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (5–)10–60 cm (rhizomatous or with branched caudices). | Perennials, 40–100 cm (caudices unknown). | ||||
Herbage | (often purplish-tinged) glabrous or sparsely and unevenly hairy, especially near leaf axils and among heads, usually glabrescent. |
unevenly floccose-lanate or tomentose, glabrescent. |
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Stems | single or loosely clustered. |
single. |
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Leaves | usually progressively reduced distally (basal sometimes smaller than proximal or mid leaves); petiolate (petioles shorter than to equaling blades, often clasping); blades broadly lanceolate or lanceolate to oblanceolate, (5–)10–20+ × 2–4(–5+) cm, bases tapered, margins dentate to denticulate (distal leaves smaller, bractlike). |
progressively reduced distally; petiolate; blades elliptic-ovate to lanceolate, 10–20(–30?) × 3–7+ cm, bases tapered, margins dentate to denticulate (teeth cartilaginous; mid leaves similar, sessile, smaller; distal leaves bractlike). |
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Ray florets | usually ± 13, sometimes fewer; corolla laminae (10–)15–25 mm. |
0. |
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Phyllaries | ± 13 or ± 21, tips often black or brownish (sometimes with scattered black hairs). |
± 21, 7–8 mm, tips greenish. |
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Calyculi | of 2–5+ linear to filiform bractlets (lengths to 1/2 phyllaries). |
of 5–8+ lance-linear to filiform bractlets (lengths 1/3–7/8 phyllaries). |
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Heads | nodding, 1–5(–10). |
10–20+ in loose or congested, cymiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
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2n | = 40, ca. 175–180. |
= 40. |
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Senecio amplectens |
Senecio astephanus |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | |||||
Habitat | Steep, rocky slopes | |||||
Elevation | 400–1500 m (1300–4900 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
CO; MT; NM; NV; UT; WY
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CA |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). The varieties of Senecio amplectens are distinguished by morphologic tendencies and habitat preferences; there are many intermediates. Where the ranges of the two overlap, var. amplectens occurs at slightly lower elevations than var. holmii. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Senecio astephanus is collected infrequently. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 552. | FNA vol. 20, p. 553. | ||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | ||||
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Synonyms | Ligularia amplectens | |||||
Name authority | A. Gray: Amer. J. Sci. Arts, ser. 2, 33: 240. (1862) | Greene: Pittonia 1: 174. (1888) | ||||
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