Senecio multidentatus var. huachucanus |
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Huachuca Mountain ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, 60–100+ cm (rhizomes weakly spreading). |
Herbage | glabrous or sparsely and unevenly floccose or tomentose. |
Stems | single (erect). |
Leaves | evenly distributed; petiolate; blades ovate to lanceolate, (7–)10–20+ × 4–6(–7) cm, bases ± tapered, margins dentate or denticulate (denticles callous; distal leaves smaller, clasping, bractlike). |
Ray florets | ± 8; corolla laminae 5–8 mm. |
Phyllaries | ± 13, 4–6(–7) mm, tips black. |
Calyculi | of 5–10 bractlets (0.5–2.5 mm). |
Heads | 4–12 in open, cymiform arrays. |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
Senecio multidentatus var. huachucanus |
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Phenology | Flowering spring–summer. |
Habitat | Mountains |
Elevation | 1800–2200 m (5900–7200 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; Mexico |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. Variety huachucanus is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 567. |
Parent taxa | |
Synonyms | S. huachucanus |
Name authority | (A. Gray) T. M. Barkley: Phytologia 67: 238. (1989) |
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