Senecio neowebsteri |
Senecio ertterae |
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Olympic Mountain ragwort |
ertter's groundsel, ertter's ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, 7–15(–20+) cm (rhizomes fibrous-rooted). | Annuals, 20–50(–60+) cm (taproots relatively thin, twisted). |
Herbage | (sometimes purplish-tinged) floccose-tomentose, unevenly glabrescent. |
(± turgid or subsucculent) unevenly villous-tomentose, glabrescent. |
Stems | single or loosely clustered (erect or arching). |
usually single, rarely clustered. |
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). |
progressively reduced distally (basal usually withering before flowering); petiolate (petioles winged); blades oblanceolate to spatulate, 4–7 × 1.5–3 cm, bases tapered, margins incised (distal leaves sessile, bractlike). |
Ray florets | ± 13; corolla laminae ± 15 mm. |
± 8 (± 13?); corolla laminae 5–6 mm. |
Phyllaries | usually ± 21, sometimes ± 13, (8–)10–15 mm, tips usually greenish (often sparsely hairy). |
± 13, 6–7 mm, tips green. |
Calyculi | of 4–8 lanceolate to lance-linear bractlets (lengths mostly less than 1/2 phyllaries). |
of 1–5+ linear to subulate bractlets (to 4 mm). |
Heads | nodding, 1(–2). |
6–10(–20) in cymiform arrays. |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
usually hairy (especially on angles), sometimes glabrous. |
2n | = 40. |
= 40. |
Senecio neowebsteri |
Senecio ertterae |
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Phenology | Flowering late summer–early fall. | Flowering late summer–early fall. |
Habitat | High talus slopes | Talus slopes of greenish yellow ash tuff |
Elevation | 2200–2600 m (7200–8500 ft) | 900–1200 m (3000–3900 ft) |
Distribution |
WA
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OR |
Discussion | Of conservation concern. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. Senecio erterrae 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. 553. | FNA vol. 20, p. 561. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | S. websteri | |
Name authority | S. F. Blake: Leafl. W. Bot. 8: 143. (1957) | T. M. Barkley: in N. L. Britton et al., N. Amer. Fl., ser. 2, 10: 124. (1978) |
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