Senecio lugens |
Senecio pseudoarnica |
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black-tip groundsel, small blacktip ragwort |
beach groundsel, seaside ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (10–)20–35(–50) cm (rhizomes suberect to creeping). | Perennials, (15–)20–60(–100) cm (caudices erect). |
Herbage | loosely, often unevenly, floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. |
arachno-tomentose to sericeous-lanate (especially on abaxial faces of phyllaries), unevenly glabrescent. |
Stems | single or clustered. |
single (turgid). |
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); subsessile or petiolate; blades obovate to oblanceolate, 5–15(–25) × 2–6(–10) cm, bases tapered, margins serrate-dentate to denticulate or subentire (distal leaves slightly smaller). |
Ray florets | (± 5) ± 8 (± 13); corolla laminae 8–10(–15) mm. |
usually ± 21, rarely 0; corolla laminae 20–25 mm. |
Phyllaries | (± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 4–7 mm, tips black. |
± 21, 8–15 mm (sometimes purplish or pinkish-tinged), tips greenish. |
Calyculi | of 2–5 linear bractlets (1–2 mm). |
of 6–10 linear bractlets (longest nearly equaling phyllaries). |
Heads | (2–)7–12(–20+) in corymbiform arrays. |
1–5(–15+) in corymbiform arrays (involucres notably large, 20–40 mm diam.). |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
2n | = 40, 80. |
= 40. |
Senecio lugens |
Senecio pseudoarnica |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Moist meadows, gravelly streambeds, open woods in alpine or boreal sites | Sandy-gravelly ocean shores and upper beaches |
Elevation | 200–2500 m (700–8200 ft) | 0 m (0 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; MT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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AK; ME; BC; NB; NL; NS; QC; SPM; ne Asia |
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.) |
Rayless individuals of Senecio pseudoarnica have been recognized as var. rollandii or forma rollandii (Victorin) Fernald; they are not otherwise distinctive. (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 | Arnica maritima, S. pseudoarnica var. rollandii, S. rollandii |
Name authority | Richardson: in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea, 748. (1823) | Lessing: Linnaea 6: 240. (1831) |
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