Senecio flaccidus
Senecio clarkianus
Douglas' groundsel, Mono groundsel, shrubby butterweed, shrubby ragwort, threadleaf groundsel, threadleaf ragwort
Clark's ragwort
glabrous or ± lanate-tomentose.
sparsely floccose-tomentose, unevenly glabrescent.
usually multiple (little branched, arching-erect).
single.
± 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).
evenly distributed; petiolate;
well-developed mid leaves: blades lanceolate to oblong,(8–)10–15(–18) × (2–)3–5(–9) cm overall, margins deeply dentate or irregularly pinnate-lobed to laciniate;
distal leaves sessile, weakly clasping.
usually ± 8 or ± 13, sometimes ± 21;
corolla laminae 10–15(–20) mm (mostly yellow, sometimes ochroleucous).
± 8 or ± 13;
corolla laminae 8–12(–20) mm.
± 13 or ± 21+, 5–10(–12) mm, tips green or minutely black.
± 13 or ± 21, 5–8 mm, tips green.
usually of 3–5+ bractlets (lengths often to 1/2+ phyllaries), sometimes 0.
of 3–8+ linear to filiform bractlets (lengths 1/2–3/4+ phyllaries).
(1–)3–10(–20+) in corymbiform or subcorymbiform clusters, often gathered in larger, showy arrays (involucres campanulate or cylindric).
8–20 in corymbiform arrays.
hairy.
glabrous.
= 40.
Senecio flaccidus
Senecio clarkianus
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.)
Senecio clarkianus grows on west slopes of the central and southern Sierra Nevada.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Herbage usually tomentose (hairs whitish), sometimes unevenly glabrescent; bractlets of calyculi minute or 0; involucres cylindric or ± campanulate; phyllaries ± 13 or ± 21, 5–8+ mm | var. flaccidus |
1. Herbage ± tomentose, glabrate, or glabrous; bractlets of calyculi well developed (lengths mostly 1/3 – 1/2 phyllaries); involucres ± campanulate; phyllaries ± 21, 7–12 mm | → 2 |
2. Plants usually ± tomentose (usually with persistent, uneven grayish tomentum), sometimes unevenly glabrescent; California w of crests of Sierra Nevada and related ranges | var. douglasii |
2. Plants glabrate or glabrous; California deserts e of crest of Sierra Nevada and eastward | var. monoensis |
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