Senecio neowebsteri |
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Olympic Mountain ragwort |
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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 |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–early fall. |
Habitat | High talus slopes |
Elevation | 2200–2600 m (7200–8500 ft) |
Distribution |
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 | |
Synonyms | S. websteri |
Name authority | S. F. Blake: Leafl. W. Bot. 8: 143. (1957) |
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