Senecio lugens |
Senecio sheldonensis |
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black-tip groundsel, small blacktip ragwort |
Mount Sheldon butterweed, Mount Sheldon ragwort, Mt. Sheldon ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (10–)20–35(–50) cm (rhizomes suberect to creeping). | Perennials, 30–40(–50) cm (caudices branched, fibrous-rooted). |
Herbage | loosely, often unevenly, floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. |
glabrous or with scattered hairs near leaf bases and among heads. |
Stems | single or clustered. |
single or loosely clustered. |
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 or subsessile; blades lanceolate, 4–10 × 2–4 cm, bases ± tapered, margins denticulate (distal leaves sessile, smaller). |
Ray florets | (± 5) ± 8 (± 13); corolla laminae 8–10(–15) mm. |
± 8; corolla laminae ± 10 mm. |
Phyllaries | (± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 4–7 mm, tips black. |
± 13, 7–10 mm, tips black (hairy). |
Calyculi | of 2–5 linear bractlets (1–2 mm). |
of 3–7 bractlets (0.5–3 mm). |
Heads | (2–)7–12(–20+) in corymbiform arrays. |
(1–)3–5(–6) in cymiform arrays. |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
2n | = 40, 80. |
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Senecio lugens |
Senecio sheldonensis |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering late Jul–mid Aug. |
Habitat | Moist meadows, gravelly streambeds, open woods in alpine or boreal sites | Subalpine meadows and valleys |
Elevation | 200–2500 m (700–8200 ft) | 1200–1800 m (3900–5900 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; MT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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BC; NT; YT |
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 sheldonensis is infrequently collected and poorly understood. The treatment here is provisional. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 554. | FNA vol. 20, p. 567. |
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. E. Porsild: Canad. Field-Naturalist 64: 43. (1950) |
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