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pale-yellow ragwort, western groundsel, white flower mountain butterweed, white western groundsel

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Scribner's ragwort

Herbage

arachnose, tomentose, or villous, unevenly glabrescent, at flowering.

usually villous, sometimes arachnose or tomentose, at flowering.

Leaves

basal and proximal cauline distinctly petiolate;

blades (cauline) usually ovate to rounded-deltate, sometimes obovate to oblanceolate.

basal and proximal cauline ± petiolate;

blades (cauline) oblong or lanceolate to sublinear (6–10 × 0.5–2 cm).

Ray florets

usually 5;

corollas white or ochroleucous, laminae (5–)10–15(–20) mm.

probably mostly 5;

corollas yellow, laminae 12–15 mm.

Phyllaries

± linear, 7–10 mm, tips green or minutely black.

± linear, 10–15 mm, tips usually green, rarely black.

Heads

(3–)8–12(–40+).

3–6(–16+).

Senecio integerrimus var. ochroleucus

Senecio integerrimus var. scribneri

Phenology Flowering spring. Flowering spring.
Habitat Moist openings in coniferous woodlands Plains and open foothills
Elevation 600–1700 m (2000–5600 ft) 300–1600 m (1000–5200 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
CA; ID; MT; OR; WA; AB; BC
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from FNA
MT; SK
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Variety scribneri is poorly known and seldom collected. It is distinguished by its relatively larger heads and narrower leaves and its indument (in a region where var. integerrimus is notably glabrate).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 557. FNA vol. 20, p. 557.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio > Senecio integerrimus Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio > Senecio integerrimus
Sibling taxa
S. integerrimus var. exaltatus, S. integerrimus var. integerrimus, S. integerrimus var. major, S. integerrimus var. scribneri
S. integerrimus var. exaltatus, S. integerrimus var. integerrimus, S. integerrimus var. major, S. integerrimus var. ochroleucus
Synonyms S. lugens var. ochroleucus, S. cordatus, S. exaltatus subsp. ochraceus, S. leibergii, S. ochraceus S. scribneri
Name authority (A. Gray) Cronquist: Leafl. W. Bot. 6: 48. (1950) (Rydberg) T. M. Barkley: Leafl. W. Bot. 9: 109. (1960)
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