Senecio flaccidus |
Senecio aronicoides |
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Douglas' groundsel, Mono groundsel, shrubby butterweed, shrubby ragwort, threadleaf groundsel, threadleaf ragwort |
butterweed, rayless groundsel, rayless ragwort |
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Habit | Subshrubs or shrubs, (30–)40–120+ cm (taproots forming woody crowns). | Perennials (biennials?), 30–90 cm (caudices buttonlike, roots unbranched, fleshy-fibrous). | ||||||||
Herbage | glabrous or ± lanate-tomentose. |
loosely and sparsely arachnose to finely tomentose, unevenly glabrescent. |
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Stems | usually multiple (little branched, arching-erect). |
single. |
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Leaves | ± evenly distributed; sessile or obscurely petiolate; blades narrowly linear to filiform (or pinnatifid, the segments linear to filiform), 3–10(–12) cm, bases ± linear, ultimate margins entire or remotely toothed (fascicles of smaller leaves sometimes borne in axils of larger leaves). |
progressively reduced distally; petiolate; blades ovate or oblanceolate to oblong, 7–20 × 2–3 cm, bases broadly to narrowly tapered, margins repand-denticulate or sublaciniate to subentire (mid and distal leaves sessile, smaller, weakly clasping). |
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Ray florets | usually ± 8 or ± 13, sometimes ± 21; corolla laminae 10–15(–20) mm (mostly yellow, sometimes ochroleucous). |
0 or 1–2; corolla laminae 4–7 mm. |
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Phyllaries | ± 13 or ± 21+, 5–10(–12) mm, tips green or minutely black. |
± 8 or ± 13, 4–8 mm, tips green or black. |
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Calyculi | usually of 3–5+ bractlets (lengths often to 1/2+ phyllaries), sometimes 0. |
0 or of 1–3+ oblong to linear bractlets (seldom more than 1.5 mm). |
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Heads | (1–)3–10(–20+) in corymbiform or subcorymbiform clusters, often gathered in larger, showy arrays (involucres campanulate or cylindric). |
(6–)15–30+ in corymbiform arrays. |
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Cypselae | hairy. |
glabrous. |
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2n | = 40. |
= 40. |
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Senecio flaccidus |
Senecio aronicoides |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–early summer. | |||||||||
Habitat | Dry or drying sites in open woodlands, upper foothills and montane forests | |||||||||
Elevation | 800–2500 m (2600–8200 ft) | |||||||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; KS; NM; NV; OK; TX; UT; Mexico
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CA; OR
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Discussion | Varieties 3 (3 in the flora). The varieties of Senecio flaccidus are distinguished by morphologic tendencies and geography. The species occurs southward to central Mexico; a sound understanding of the infraspecific taxonomy must await revisionary studies that include the Mexican plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 558. | FNA vol. 20, p. 556. | ||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | ||||||||
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Synonyms | S. leptolepis, S. rawsonianus | |||||||||
Name authority | Lessing: Linnaea 5: 161. (1830) | de Candolle: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 6: 426. (1838) | ||||||||
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