Senecio lugens |
Senecio clarkianus |
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black-tip groundsel, small blacktip ragwort |
Clark's ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (10–)20–35(–50) cm (rhizomes suberect to creeping). | Perennials, (50–)60–100(–120) cm (caudices fibrous-rooted). |
Herbage | loosely, often unevenly, floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. |
sparsely floccose-tomentose, unevenly glabrescent. |
Stems | single or clustered. |
single. |
Leaves | 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). |
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. |
Ray florets | (± 5) ± 8 (± 13); corolla laminae 8–10(–15) mm. |
± 8 or ± 13; corolla laminae 8–12(–20) mm. |
Phyllaries | (± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 4–7 mm, tips black. |
± 13 or ± 21, 5–8 mm, tips green. |
Calyculi | of 2–5 linear bractlets (1–2 mm). |
of 3–8+ linear to filiform bractlets (lengths 1/2–3/4+ phyllaries). |
Heads | (2–)7–12(–20+) in corymbiform arrays. |
8–20 in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
2n | = 40, 80. |
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Senecio lugens |
Senecio clarkianus |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late summer. |
Habitat | Moist meadows, gravelly streambeds, open woods in alpine or boreal sites | Moist meadows, conifer-dominated sites |
Elevation | 200–2500 m (700–8200 ft) | 1400–2700 m (4600–8900 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; MT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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CA
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Discussion | 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.) |
Senecio clarkianus grows on west slopes of the central and southern Sierra Nevada. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 554. | FNA vol. 20, p. 566. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | S. glaucescens, S. imbricatus, S. integerrimus var. lugens | |
Name authority | Richardson: in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea, 748. (1823) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 362. (1868) |
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