Senecio integerrimus
Senecio lugens
lambstongue ragwort, mountain butterweed, one-stem butterweed, tall western groundsel, western groundsel
black-tip groundsel, small blacktip ragwort
arachnose, loosely tomentose, or villous (hairs crisped, jointed), glabrescent.
loosely, often unevenly, floccose-tomentose, glabrescent.
single.
single or clustered.
progressively reduced distally; ± petiolate;
blades elliptic, lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, rounded-deltate, or suborbiculate, 6–25 × 1–6 cm, bases ± tapered or truncate to cordate, margins entire or ± dentate (distal leaves sessile, bractlike).
reduced distally; petiolate;
blades narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, (4–)8–18(–25) cm, bases tapered, margins subentire to dentate (denticles callous; mid and distal leaves bractlike, clasping).
usually ± 8 or ± 13, sometimes 0;
corolla laminae 6–15(–20) mm (usually yellow, ochroleucous to white in one variety).
(± 5) ± 8 (± 13);
corolla laminae 8–10(–15) mm.
usually ± 13 or ± 21, rarely ± 8, (4–)5–12(–15) mm, tips usually black, sometimes green.
(± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 4–7 mm, tips black.
of 1–5+ linear to filiform bractlets (seldom more than 2 mm).
of 2–5 linear bractlets (1–2 mm).
6–20(–40+) in corymbiform arrays (peduncle of terminal head often shorter than others).
(2–)7–12(–20+) in corymbiform arrays.
usually glabrous, sometimes hirtellous (mostly on angles).
glabrous.
= 40, 80.
= 40, 80.
Senecio integerrimus
Senecio lugens
Varieties 5 (5 in the flora).
The varieties of Senecio integerrimus are distinguished by morphology and geography.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Senecio lugens varies greatly in robustness across its range. It is scattered widely in the Rocky Mountain uplift and adjacent regions from northern Wyoming to Alaska; it is disjunct in the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Superficially similar to S. integerrimus, S. lugens has well-developed, coarse, spreading rootstocks with branching roots; S. integerrimus arises from foreshortened, buttonlike caudices with abundant unbranched, fleshy-fibrous roots.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Basal leaves with distinct petioles, blades usually ovate to rounded-deltate, sometimes obovate to oblanceolate; ray corollas white or ochroleucous | var. ochroleucus |
1. Basal leaves with or without distinct petioles, blades elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, rounded-deltate, sublinear, or suborbiculate; ray corollas yellow (or rays 0) | → 2 |
2. Herbage glabrous or glabrate at flowering (except in leaf axils and among heads); phyllaries linear-subulate, tips usually green, minutely (if at all) black | var. integerrimus |
2. Herbage usually arachnose, tomentose, or villous at flowering; phyllaries lanceolate to linear-subulate, tips black (if minutely so, then narrowly lanceolate and broader than subulate) | → 3 |
3. Basal and proximal leaves oblong or lanceolate to sublinear; heads 3–6(–16+); phyllaries 10–15+ mm | var. scribneri |
3. Basal and proximal leaves mostly elliptic to oblanceolate, sometimes elliptic or rounded-deltate to suborbiculate; heads usually 6–15(–30+; if fewer than 6, leaves lanceolate or broader); phyllaries 5–12 mm. | → 4 |
4. Plants copiously arachnose, tomentose, or villous at flowering; phyllaries linear-subulate, 8–12 mm, tips minutely, if at all, blackened | var. major |
4. Plants copiously to sparsely arachnose, tomentose, or villous at flowering; phyllaries mostly lanceolate (seldom as narrow as linear-subulate), 5–10 mm, tips black | var. exaltatus |
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BC, 
CA, 
OR, 
WA - Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos,
Flora NW, 
KS Wildflowers, 
MN Wildflowers, 
PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. 
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist (observations)
USDA Plants Database- LBJ Wildflower Center
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