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Senecio neowebsteri

Olympic Mountain ragwort

Habit Perennials, 7–15(–20+) cm (rhizomes fibrous-rooted).
Herbage

(sometimes purplish-tinged) floccose-tomentose, unevenly glabrescent.

Stems

single or loosely clustered (erect or arching).

Leaves

mostly cauline; petiolate (petioles about equaling blades);

blades lanceolate or oblanceolate to ovate, (2–)4–8+ × 1.5–3 cm, bases tapered, margins denticulate (distal leaves smaller, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, bractlike).

Ray florets

± 13;

corolla laminae ± 15 mm.

Phyllaries

usually ± 21, sometimes ± 13, (8–)10–15 mm, tips usually greenish (often sparsely hairy).

Calyculi

of 4–8 lanceolate to lance-linear bractlets (lengths mostly less than 1/2 phyllaries).

Heads

nodding, 1(–2).

Cypselae

glabrous.

2n

= 40.

Senecio neowebsteri

Phenology Flowering late summer–early fall.
Habitat High talus slopes
Elevation 2200–2600 m (7200–8500 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
WA
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Discussion

Of conservation concern.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 553.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio
Sibling taxa
S. actinella, S. amplectens, S. ampullaceus, S. aphanactis, S. arizonicus, S. aronicoides, S. astephanus, S. atratus, S. bigelovii, S. blochmaniae, S. californicus, S. cannabifolius, S. clarkianus, S. crassulus, S. elegans, S. elmeri, S. eremophilus, S. ertterae, S. erucifolius, S. flaccidus, S. fremontii, S. hydrophiloides, S. hydrophilus, S. integerrimus, S. jacobaea, S. lemmonii, S. lugens, S. lyonii, S. megacephalus, S. mohavensis, S. multidentatus, S. parryi, S. pattersonensis, S. pseudoarnica, S. pudicus, S. quaylei, S. rapifolius, S. riddellii, S. sacramentanus, S. scorzonella, S. serra, S. sheldonensis, S. soldanella, S. spartioides, S. sphaerocephalus, S. spribillei, S. squalidus, S. sylvaticus, S. taraxacoides, S. triangularis, S. viscosus, S. vulgaris, S. warnockii, S. wootonii
Synonyms S. websteri
Name authority S. F. Blake: Leafl. W. Bot. 8: 143. (1957)
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