Senecio lugens |
Senecio parryi |
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black-tip groundsel, small blacktip ragwort |
mountain ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (10–)20–35(–50) cm (rhizomes suberect to creeping). | Perennials (annuals?), 30–60(–100) cm (apparently taprooted). |
Herbage | loosely, often unevenly, floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. |
viscid-pubescent (reputedly notably odorous). |
Stems | single or clustered. |
single (sometimes branching). |
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 (basal and proximal sometimes withering before flowering); weakly petiolate; blades ovate or obovate to suborbiculate, spatulate, or lanceolate, 8–12 × 2–4 cm, bases tapered to truncate, margins dentate (mid and distal leaves similar, triangular-lanceolate, bases truncate, clasping). |
Ray florets | (± 5) ± 8 (± 13); corolla laminae 8–10(–15) mm. |
± 13; corolla laminae 8–10(–12+) mm. |
Phyllaries | (± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 4–7 mm, tips black. |
± 21, 6–7 mm, tips greenish. |
Calyculi | of 2–5 linear bractlets (1–2 mm). |
of 5–15+ lanceolate or linear to subulate bractlets (lengths 1/3–7/8+ phyllaries). |
Heads | (2–)7–12(–20+) in corymbiform arrays. |
12–30 in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
hairy. |
2n | = 40, 80. |
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Senecio lugens |
Senecio parryi |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Moist meadows, gravelly streambeds, open woods in alpine or boreal sites | Rocky, disturbed sites in desert mountains |
Elevation | 200–2500 m (700–8200 ft) | 1300–2300 m (4300–7500 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; MT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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AZ; NM; TX; Mexico |
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 parryi is infrequently collected and poorly known. In the flora, it is known from trans-Pecos Texas westward to southern Arizona. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 554. | FNA vol. 20, p. 568. |
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 W. H. Emory, Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 2(1): 103. (1859) |
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