Senecio spartioides |
Senecio californicus |
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broom groundsel, broom senecio, broom-like ragwort, grass-leaf ragwort, many-head groundsel |
California butterweed, California ragwort |
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Habit | Subshrubs, 20–120+ cm (taproots forming woody crowns). | Annuals, (5–)10–30(–50+) cm (taprooted). |
Herbage | usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely, unevenly hairy. |
glabrous or sparsely tomentose. |
Stems | usually multiple (branching and arching upward). |
usually single (erect), sometimes 2–6 (branching from bases, arching upward). |
Leaves | evenly distributed (proximal often smaller); sessile or obscurely petiolate; blades narrowly linear to filiform (or parted into linear-filiform lobes), 5–10 cm × 1–6 mm, bases ± linear, ultimate margins entire. |
(sometimes subsucculent) evenly distributed; ± petiolate (proximal); blades linear-lanceolate to lanceolate 2–5(–7+) × 0.5–2(–3+) cm, bases tapered, margins subpinnatifid to dentate or subentire (mid and distal leaves sessile, bases clasping). |
Ray florets | ± 5 (± 13); corolla laminae 8–12 mm. |
± 13; corolla laminae 8–11 mm. |
Phyllaries | usually ± 8, sometimes ± 13, (5–)6–9(–10) mm, tips green or minutely black. |
± 21 (sometimes fewer), 5–7(–8) mm, tips black. |
Calyculi | 0 or of 1–3+ (minute, inconspicuous) bractlets. |
of 5–8+ lanceolate to lance-linear or filiform bractlets (0.5–3 mm, usually inconspicuous). |
Heads | 10–20(–60) in compound corymbiform arrays (involucres cylindric or narrowly campanulate, 3–6 mm diam.). |
usually 3–10(–20+) in open, cymiform arrays, sometimes borne singly (depauperate plants). |
Cypselae | usually hirtellous, sometimes glabrous. |
hirtellous-strigose. |
2n | = 40. |
= 40. |
Senecio spartioides |
Senecio californicus |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. | Flowering late winter–spring. |
Habitat | Open, dry disturbed sites, especially stream banks and hillsides | Sandy, dry or drying sites, especially near coast |
Elevation | 1000–3500 m (3300–11500 ft) | 0–1200 m (0–3900 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NE; NM; NV; SD; TX; UT; WY
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CA; Mexico
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Discussion | Plants with the leaves parted into lobes that are seldom more than 1 mm wide have been recognized as Senecio spartioides var. multicapitatus (or as S. multicapitatus); expression of the character is inconsistent throughout the range and recognition of the two entities is all but impossible to maintain. Senecio spartioides apparently hybridizes with S. eremophilus in Garfield County, Utah, and perhaps elsewhere (cf., Holmgren, Reveal, and LaFrance 3463, BRY, KSC, NY). The name Senecio toiyabensis rests upon materials that suggest introgression with S. fremontii. Some specimens usually referred to 41. S. pattersonensis suggest introgression with S. spartioides. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Dwarfish, subsucculent plants of Senecio californicus from near the coast have been recognized as S. ammophilus. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 559. | FNA vol. 20, p. 561. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | S. andersonii, S. incurvus, S. multicapitatus, S. serra var. sanctus, S. spartioides var. granularis, S. toiyabensis | S. ammophilus, S. californicus var. ammophilus, S. coronopus |
Name authority | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 438. (1843) | de Candolle: in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle, Prodr. 6: 426. (1838) |
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