Senecio integerrimus |
Senecio lyonii |
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lambstongue ragwort, mountain butterweed, one-stem butterweed, tall western groundsel, western groundsel |
island senecio, Lyon's ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials (possibly biennials), (10–)20–70 cm (caudices buttonlike, roots fleshy-fibrous). | Subshrubs or shrubs, (20–)40–150 cm (taproots woody). | ||||||||||||||||
Herbage | arachnose, loosely tomentose, or villous (hairs crisped, jointed), glabrescent. |
sparsely hairy, unevenly glabrate (usually with persistent tomentum in leaf axils and on abaxial leaf faces). |
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Stems | single. |
usually multiple (arching upwards). |
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Leaves | 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). |
evenly distributed (proximal withering before flowering); sessile or obscurely petiolate; blades ± oblong or elliptic, (4–)6–10(–12) × 1.5–3 cm (1–2-pinnatifid, lobes ± linear, 1–2 mm wide), bases ± linear, ultimate margins entire. |
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Ray florets | usually ± 8 or ± 13, sometimes 0; corolla laminae 6–15(–20) mm (usually yellow, ochroleucous to white in one variety). |
± 13; corolla laminae 8–10 mm. |
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Phyllaries | usually ± 13 or ± 21, rarely ± 8, (4–)5–12(–15) mm, tips usually black, sometimes green. |
(± 13) ± 21, (5–)6–8 mm, tips minutely black. |
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Calyculi | of 1–5+ linear to filiform bractlets (seldom more than 2 mm). |
0 or of 1–3+ (inconspicuous) bractlets. |
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Heads | 6–20(–40+) in corymbiform arrays (peduncle of terminal head often shorter than others). |
4–12 in cymiform arrays (involucres campanulate, 8–15 mm diam.). |
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Cypselae | usually glabrous, sometimes hirtellous (mostly on angles). |
hairy. |
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2n | = 40, 80. |
= 40. |
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Senecio integerrimus |
Senecio lyonii |
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Phenology | Flowering spring. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Ocean bluffs, open hillsides | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 0–500 m (0–1600 ft) | |||||||||||||||||
Distribution |
CA; CO; IA; ID; KS; MN; MT; ND; NE; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WA; WY; AB; BC; MB; SK
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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Discussion | 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.) |
Of conservation concern. Senecio lyonii is known from the Channel Islands (off the coast of southern California) and south. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 556. | FNA vol. 20, p. 560. | ||||||||||||||||
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | ||||||||||||||||
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Name authority | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 165. (1818) | A. Gray: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2, 1(2): 454. (1886) | ||||||||||||||||
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