Senecio crassulus |
Senecio parryi |
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mountain meadow butterweed, thick-leaf groundsel, thick-leaf ragwort |
mountain ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (15–)20–50(–70) cm (rhizomes branched, ± woody). | Perennials (annuals?), 30–60(–100) cm (apparently taprooted). |
Herbage | glabrous. |
viscid-pubescent (reputedly notably odorous). |
Stems | 1–(2–4). |
single (sometimes branching). |
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). |
evenly distributed (basal and proximal sometimes withering before flowering); weakly petiolate; blades ovate or obovate to suborbiculate, spatulate, or lanceolate, 8–12 × 2–4 cm, bases tapered to truncate, margins dentate (mid and distal leaves similar, triangular-lanceolate, bases truncate, clasping). |
Ray florets | ± 8 or ± 13; corolla laminae 5–12 mm. |
± 13; corolla laminae 8–10(–12+) mm. |
Phyllaries | (± 8) ± 13 or ± 21, 5–9 mm, tips black (villous). |
± 21, 6–7 mm, tips greenish. |
Calyculi | of (1–)3–6 linear to filiform bractlets (lengths to 1/3 phyllaries). |
of 5–15+ lanceolate or linear to subulate bractlets (lengths 1/3–7/8+ phyllaries). |
Heads | (1–)4–12 in corymbiform arrays. |
12–30 in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
hairy. |
2n | = 40. |
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Senecio crassulus |
Senecio parryi |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Moist to drying hillsides, meadows, other open places in forest associations | Rocky, disturbed sites in desert mountains |
Elevation | 2200–3700 m (7200–12100 ft) | 1300–2300 m (4300–7500 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WY
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico |
Discussion | Senecio parryi is infrequently collected and poorly known. In the flora, it is known from trans-Pecos Texas westward to southern Arizona. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 551. | FNA vol. 20, p. 568. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | S. lapathifolius, S. semiamplexicaulis | |
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 54. (1883) | A. Gray: in W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 103. (1859) |
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