Senecio aphanactis |
Senecio cannabifolius |
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California groundsel, chaparral ragwort, rayless ragwort |
Aleutian ragwort |
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Habit | Annuals, 5–20+ cm (taproots relatively short and thin). | Perennials, (50–)100–150+ cm (rhizomes fibrous-rooted). |
Herbage | glabrous or sparsely tomentose (especially distally). |
unevenly tomentose, glabrescent, except persistently hairy on abaxial faces of leaves. |
Stems | usually 1 (relatively thin, delicate). |
single. |
Leaves | evenly distributed; sessile; blades oblanceolate to lance-linear, 2–4 × 0.5–1 cm, bases sometimes weakly clasping, margins usually subpinnate to dentate, sometimes subentire (distal leaves bractlike). |
± evenly distributed (basal and proximal withering before flowering); mostly petiolate (proximal); blades oblong or ovate to oblong-lanceolate (pinnately or subpalmately parted, primary lobes 3–6+, lanceolate to lance-linear, 3–8+ cm), 10–20+ × 8–15+ cm, bases ± tapered, ultimate margins serrate (distal leaves similar, sessile, smaller). |
Ray florets | 0 or 1–5; corolla laminae 0.5–1+ mm (barely surpassing phyllaries, heads perhaps technically disciform). |
± 5; corolla laminae ca. 10 mm. |
Phyllaries | ± 8 or ± 13, 5–6 mm, tips greenish. |
± 13, 4–6 mm, tips green. |
Calyculi | 0 or of 1–3+ lance-deltate bractlets. |
0 or of 1–5+ subulate bractlets (lengths about 1/3 phyllaries). |
Heads | 4–10+ in open, cymiform arrays. |
20–50 in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | densely hairy. |
glabrous. |
2n | = 40. |
= 40. |
Senecio aphanactis |
Senecio cannabifolius |
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Phenology | Flowering late winter–spring. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Dry, open ground, especially alkaline flats | Open meadows and slopes |
Elevation | 10–400 m (0–1300 ft) | 0–100 m (0–300 ft) |
Distribution |
CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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AK; Eurasia |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Senecio cannabifolius barely enters the flora from far-eastern Asia. Infraspecific taxa are recognized within S. cannabifolius in some floras of Asiatic regions; our plants are referable to var. cannabifolius. Senecio cannabifolius has been treated in Jacobaea by E. Wiebe (2000); see discussion under 53. S. jacobaea. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 563. | FNA vol. 20, p. 569. |
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Synonyms | Jacobaea cannabifolia, S. palmatus | |
Name authority | Greene: Pittonia 1: 220. (1888) | Lessing: Linnaea 6: 242. (1831) |
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