Senecio crassulus |
Senecio neowebsteri |
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mountain meadow butterweed, thick-leaf groundsel, thick-leaf ragwort |
Olympic Mountain ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (15–)20–50(–70) cm (rhizomes branched, ± woody). | Perennials, 7–15(–20+) cm (rhizomes fibrous-rooted). |
Herbage | glabrous. |
(sometimes purplish-tinged) floccose-tomentose, unevenly glabrescent. |
Stems | 1–(2–4). |
single or loosely clustered (erect or arching). |
Leaves | (thickish-turgid) progressively reduced distally; petiolate; blades broadly lanceolate to subelliptic, 2.5–15 × 1–5 cm, bases tapered, margins sharply dentate to subentire (some teeth callous; mid leaves sometimes larger than proximal; distal leaves sessile, smaller, often clasping). |
mostly cauline; petiolate (petioles about equaling blades); blades lanceolate or oblanceolate to ovate, (2–)4–8+ × 1.5–3 cm, bases tapered, margins denticulate (distal leaves smaller, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, bractlike). |
Ray florets | ± 8 or ± 13; corolla laminae 5–12 mm. |
± 13; corolla laminae ± 15 mm. |
Phyllaries | (± 8) ± 13 or ± 21, 5–9 mm, tips black (villous). |
usually ± 21, sometimes ± 13, (8–)10–15 mm, tips usually greenish (often sparsely hairy). |
Calyculi | of (1–)3–6 linear to filiform bractlets (lengths to 1/3 phyllaries). |
of 4–8 lanceolate to lance-linear bractlets (lengths mostly less than 1/2 phyllaries). |
Heads | (1–)4–12 in corymbiform arrays. |
nodding, 1(–2). |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
2n | = 40. |
= 40. |
Senecio crassulus |
Senecio neowebsteri |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late summer–early fall. |
Habitat | Moist to drying hillsides, meadows, other open places in forest associations | High talus slopes |
Elevation | 2200–3700 m (7200–12100 ft) | 2200–2600 m (7200–8500 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WY
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WA
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 551. | FNA vol. 20, p. 553. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | S. lapathifolius, S. semiamplexicaulis | S. websteri |
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 54. (1883) | S. F. Blake: Leafl. W. Bot. 8: 143. (1957) |
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