Senecio triangularis |
Senecio spartioides |
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arrow-leaf groundsel, arrow-leaf ragwort, arrowleaf butterweed, groundsel |
broom groundsel, broom senecio, broom-like ragwort, grass-leaf ragwort, many-head groundsel |
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Habit | Perennials, (20–)50–120(–200) cm (caudices branched, ± woody). | Subshrubs, 20–120+ cm (taproots forming woody crowns). |
Herbage | glabrous or sparsely floccose-tomentose when young. |
usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely, unevenly hairy. |
Stems | single or loosely clustered. |
usually multiple (branching and arching upward). |
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). |
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. |
Ray florets | ± 8; corolla laminae 9–15 mm. |
± 5 (± 13); corolla laminae 8–12 mm. |
Phyllaries | (± 8) ± 13 (± 21), 6–10 mm, tips usually green, rarely black. |
usually ± 8, sometimes ± 13, (5–)6–9(–10) mm, tips green or minutely black. |
Calyculi | of 2–6 bractlets (rarely more than 2 mm). |
0 or of 1–3+ (minute, inconspicuous) bractlets. |
Heads | 10–30(–60) in corymbiform to subracemiform arrays. |
10–20(–60) in compound corymbiform arrays (involucres cylindric or narrowly campanulate, 3–6 mm diam.). |
Cypselae | glabrous. |
usually hirtellous, sometimes glabrous. |
2n | = 40, 80. |
= 40. |
Senecio triangularis |
Senecio spartioides |
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Phenology | Flowering summer. | Flowering summer–fall. |
Habitat | Damp places, open woodlands, especially rocky stream banks in coniferous forests | Open, dry disturbed sites, especially stream banks and hillsides |
Elevation | 100–3300 m (300–10800 ft) | 1000–3500 m (3300–11500 ft) |
Distribution |
AK; AZ; CA; CO; ID; MT; NM; NV; OR; WA; WY; AB; BC; NT; YT; PH
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AZ; CA; CO; NE; NM; NV; SD; TX; UT; WY
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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.) |
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.) |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 566. | FNA vol. 20, p. 559. |
Parent taxa | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio | Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Senecio |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | S. gibbonsii, S. saliens, S. triangularis var. angustifolius | S. andersonii, S. incurvus, S. multicapitatus, S. serra var. sanctus, S. spartioides var. granularis, S. toiyabensis |
Name authority | Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 332, plate 115. (1834) | Torrey & A. Gray: Fl. N. Amer. 2: 438. (1843) |
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