Senecio triangularis |
Senecio lugens |
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arrow-leaf groundsel, arrow-leaf ragwort, arrowleaf butterweed, groundsel |
black-tip groundsel, small blacktip ragwort |
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Habit | Perennials, (20–)50–120(–200) cm (caudices branched, ± woody). | Perennials, (10–)20–35(–50) cm (rhizomes suberect to creeping). |
Herbage | glabrous or sparsely floccose-tomentose when young. |
loosely, often unevenly, floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. |
Stems | single or loosely clustered. |
single or clustered. |
Leaves | evenly distributed; petiolate; blades narrowly triangular, (3–)4–10+ × 2–6 cm, bases usually ± truncate, sometimes tapered, margins usually dentate, rarely subentire (distal leaves subsessile, smaller). |
reduced distally; petiolate; blades narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, (4–)8–18(–25) cm, bases tapered, margins subentire to dentate (denticles callous; mid and distal leaves bractlike, clasping). |
Ray florets | ± 8; corolla laminae 9–15 mm. |
(± 5) ± 8 (± 13); corolla laminae 8–10(–15) mm. |
Phyllaries | (± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 6–10 mm, tips usually green, rarely black. |
(± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 4–7 mm, tips black. |
Calyculi | of 2–6 bractlets (rarely more than 2 mm). |
of 2–5 linear bractlets (1–2 mm). |
Heads | 10–30(–60) in corymbiform to subracemiform arrays. |
(2–)7–12(–20+) in corymbiform arrays. |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
glabrous. |
2n | = 40, 80. |
= 40, 80. |
Senecio triangularis |
Senecio lugens |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer. |
Habitat | Damp places, open woodlands, especially rocky stream banks in coniferous forests | Moist meadows, gravelly streambeds, open woods in alpine or boreal sites |
Elevation | 100–3300 m (300–10800 ft) | 200–2500 m (700–8200 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT; PH
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AK; MT; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT
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Discussion | Plants of Senecio triangularis with narrow, subentire leaves that taper to the petioles are occasionally encountered in acid bogs in Oregon and Washington and less frequently elsewhere. They are regarded as edaphic variants; they have been recognized as var. angustifolius. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Senecio lugens varies greatly in robustness across its range. It is scattered widely in the Rocky Mountain uplift and adjacent regions from northern Wyoming to Alaska; it is disjunct in the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. Superficially similar to S. integerrimus, S. lugens has well-developed, coarse, spreading rootstocks with branching roots; S. integerrimus arises from foreshortened, buttonlike caudices with abundant unbranched, fleshy-fibrous roots. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 566. | FNA vol. 20, p. 554. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | S. gibbonsii, S. saliens, S. triangularis var. angustifolius | S. glaucescens, S. imbricatus, S. integerrimus var. lugens |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 332, plate 115. (1834) | Richardson: in J. Franklin et al., Narr. Journey Polar Sea, 748. (1823) |
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