Senecio spartioides |
Senecio elegans |
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broom groundsel, broom senecio, broom-like ragwort, grass-leaf ragwort, many-head groundsel |
purple ragwort, red-purple ragwort |
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Habit | Subshrubs, 20–120+ cm (taproots forming woody crowns). | Annuals, 20–40(–60) cm (taprooted). |
Herbage | usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely, unevenly hairy. |
(somewhat sticky) hairy or unevenly glabrate. |
Stems | usually multiple (branching and arching upward). |
single (often branching distally). |
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. |
evenly distributed; petiolate (petiole bases ± expanded); blades obovate (lyrate to pinnatifid, lobes linear to ± cruciate), 3–8 × 1.5–3.5 cm, bases contracted or tapered, ultimate margins ± dentate to crenate. |
Ray florets | ± 5 (± 13); corolla laminae 8–12 mm. |
± 13; corolla laminae (deep red to purple) 10–15 mm. |
Phyllaries | usually ± 8, sometimes ± 13, (5–)6–9(–10) mm, tips green or minutely black. |
± 13+, 6–10 mm, tips black. |
Calyculi | 0 or of 1–3+ (minute, inconspicuous) bractlets. |
of 8–14 ± ovate bractlets (lengths to 1/2 phyllaries). |
Heads | 10–20(–60) in compound corymbiform arrays (involucres cylindric or narrowly campanulate, 3–6 mm diam.). |
8–20 in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | usually hirtellous, sometimes glabrous. |
usually hairy. |
2n | = 40. |
= 20. |
Senecio spartioides |
Senecio elegans |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. | Flowering mostly spring–summer (sparingly at other times). |
Habitat | Open, dry disturbed sites, especially stream banks and hillsides | Disturbed coastal sites |
Elevation | 1000–3500 m (3300–11500 ft) | 0–100 m (0–300 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NE; NM; NV; SD; TX; UT; WY
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CA; Africa [Introduced in North America] |
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.) |
Senecio elegans escapes from cultivation and persists along the central coast of California. Native to South Africa, it is now established widely in areas of Mediterranean climate. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 559. | FNA vol. 20, p. 567. |
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 | |
Name authority | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 438. (1843) | Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 869. (1753) |
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