Senecio lugens |
Senecio crassulus |
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black-tip groundsel, small blacktip ragwort |
mountain meadow butterweed, thick-leaf groundsel, thick-leaf ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (10–)20–35(–50) cm (rhizomes suberect to creeping). | Perennials, (15–)20–50(–70) cm (rhizomes branched, ± woody). |
Herbage | loosely, often unevenly, floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. |
glabrous. |
Stems | single or clustered. |
1–(2–4). |
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). |
(thickish-turgid) progressively reduced distally; petiolate; blades broadly lanceolate to subelliptic, 2.5–15 × 1–5 cm, bases tapered, margins sharply dentate to subentire (some teeth callous; mid leaves sometimes larger than proximal; distal leaves sessile, smaller, often clasping). |
Ray florets | (± 5) ± 8 (± 13); corolla laminae 8–10(–15) mm. |
± 8 or ± 13; corolla laminae 5–12 mm. |
Phyllaries | (± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 4–7 mm, tips black. |
(± 8) ± 13 or ± 21, 5–9 mm, tips black (villous). |
Calyculi | of 2–5 linear bractlets (1–2 mm). |
of (1–)3–6 linear to filiform bractlets (lengths to 1/3 phyllaries). |
Heads | (2–)7–12(–20+) in corymbiform arrays. |
(1–)4–12 in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
2n | = 40, 80. |
= 40. |
Senecio lugens |
Senecio crassulus |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Moist meadows, gravelly streambeds, open woods in alpine or boreal sites | Moist to drying hillsides, meadows, other open places in forest associations |
Elevation | 200–2500 m (700–8200 ft) | 2200–3700 m (7200–12100 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; MT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; SD; UT; WY
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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.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 554. | FNA vol. 20, p. 551. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | S. glaucescens, S. imbricatus, S. integerrimus var. lugens | S. lapathifolius, S. semiamplexicaulis |
Name authority | Richardson: in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea, 748. (1823) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 19: 54. (1883) |
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