Senecio lugens |
Senecio lyonii |
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black-tip groundsel, small blacktip ragwort |
island senecio, Lyon's ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (10–)20–35(–50) cm (rhizomes suberect to creeping). | Subshrubs or shrubs, (20–)40–150 cm (taproots woody). |
Herbage | loosely, often unevenly, floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. |
sparsely hairy, unevenly glabrate (usually with persistent tomentum in leaf axils and on abaxial leaf faces). |
Stems | single or clustered. |
usually multiple (arching upwards). |
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 (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. |
Ray florets | (± 5) ± 8 (± 13); corolla laminae 8–10(–15) mm. |
± 13; corolla laminae 8–10 mm. |
Phyllaries | (± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 4–7 mm, tips black. |
(± 13) ± 21, (5–)6–8 mm, tips minutely black. |
Calyculi | of 2–5 linear bractlets (1–2 mm). |
0 or of 1–3+ (inconspicuous) bractlets. |
Heads | (2–)7–12(–20+) in corymbiform arrays. |
4–12 in cymiform arrays (involucres campanulate, 8–15 mm diam.). |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
hairy. |
2n | = 40, 80. |
= 40. |
Senecio lugens |
Senecio lyonii |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering spring. |
Habitat | Moist meadows, gravelly streambeds, open woods in alpine or boreal sites | Ocean bluffs, open hillsides |
Elevation | 200–2500 m (700–8200 ft) | 0–500 m (0–1600 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; MT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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CA; Mexico (Baja California)
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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.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 554. | FNA vol. 20, p. 560. |
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: in A. Gray et al., Syn. Fl. N. Amer. ed. 2, 1(2): 454. (1886) |
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