Senecio crassulus |
Senecio soldanella |
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mountain meadow butterweed, thick-leaf groundsel, thick-leaf ragwort |
Colorado ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (15–)20–50(–70) cm (rhizomes branched, ± woody). | Perennials, 5–15(–20) cm (caudices branched, fibrous-rooted, roots fleshy). |
Herbage | glabrous. |
glabrous (or with hairs on peduncles). |
Stems | 1–(2–4). |
single (often purplish-tinged). |
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 basal; petiolate (petioles ± winged, lengths 1–3+ blades); blades broadly ovate to ovate-orbiculate, (1.5–)2.5–4.5(–6) × 1.5–4(–5) cm, bases truncate or tapered, margins weakly dentate or repand-denticulate to subentire (cauline leaves smaller, bractlike). |
Ray florets | ± 8 or ± 13; corolla laminae 5–12 mm. |
± 13+; corolla laminae 10–14 mm. |
Phyllaries | (± 8) ± 13 or ± 21, 5–9 mm, tips black (villous). |
± 21, (8–)10–16 mm, tips green. |
Calyculi | of (1–)3–6 linear to filiform bractlets (lengths to 1/3 phyllaries). |
of 3–5+ lanceolate to lance-linear bractlets (lengths 1/2–2/3 phyllaries). |
Heads | (1–)4–12 in corymbiform arrays. |
nodding, 1(–2). |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
2n | = 40. |
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Senecio crassulus |
Senecio soldanella |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Moist to drying hillsides, meadows, other open places in forest associations | Talus slopes |
Elevation | 2200–3700 m (7200–12100 ft) | 3200–4000 m (10500–13100 ft) |
Distribution |
CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WY
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CO; NM
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 551. | FNA vol. 20, p. 552. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | S. lapathifolius, S. semiamplexicaulis | Ligularia soldanella |
Name authority | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 54. (1883) | A. Gray: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 15: 67. (1864) |
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