Senecio integerrimus |
Senecio riddellii |
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lambstongue ragwort, mountain butterweed, one-stem butterweed, tall western groundsel, western groundsel |
Riddell's groundsel, Riddell's ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials (possibly biennials), (10–)20–70 cm (caudices buttonlike, roots fleshy-fibrous). | Subshrubs, 30–100 cm (taproots forming woody crowns). | ||||||||||||||||
Herbage | arachnose, loosely tomentose, or villous (hairs crisped, jointed), glabrescent. |
glabrous. |
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Stems | single. |
usually multiple (branching upward). |
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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 often withering before flowering, pendulous); sessile or obscurely petiolate; blades linear-filiform (or irregularly pinnately divided into linear-filiform lobes), blades or lobes 4–9 cm × 1–5 mm, 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). |
± 8; corolla laminae (often falling early) 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, 7–10(–12+) mm, tips green. |
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Calyculi | of 1–5+ linear to filiform bractlets (seldom more than 2 mm). |
usually of 3–8+ lance-linear to filiform bractlets (lengths 1/10–1/3 phyllaries). |
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Heads | 6–20(–40+) in corymbiform arrays (peduncle of terminal head often shorter than others). |
5–20+ in close, corymbiform arrays (involucres campanulate, 7–10 mm diam.). |
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Cypselae | usually glabrous, sometimes hirtellous (mostly on angles). |
hirtellous. |
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2n | = 40, 80. |
= 40. |
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Senecio integerrimus |
Senecio riddellii |
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Phenology | Flowering mostly mid summer–fall, occasionally spring. | |||||||||||||||||
Habitat | Sandy or rocky open sites, especially drying, open, flood plains | |||||||||||||||||
Elevation | 600–2500 m (2000–8200 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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AZ; CO; KS; NE; NM; OK; SD; TX; WY
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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.) |
Senecio riddellii intergrades morphologically with S. spartioides. Typically, the former has larger heads with campanulate involucres 7–10 mm diam.; the latter has cylindric involucres rarely more than 6 mm diam. Senecio riddellii is poisonous to livestock. It is now locally scarce because of efforts to eradicate it. (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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Synonyms | S. filifolius var. fremontii, S. riddellii var. parksii, S. spartioides var. fremontii, S. spartioides var. parksii, S. spartioides var. riddellii | |||||||||||||||||
Name authority | Nuttall: Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 165. (1818) | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 444. (1843) | ||||||||||||||||
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