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marsh fleabane, marsh woolly-groundsel, swamp ragwort

Habit Annuals or biennials (perhaps rarely perennials), 20–100 cm (loosely arachnose or villous, hairs white, light yellowish, or reddish brown, indument fugitive in some populations; caudices fibrous-rooted). Perennials, 5–15 cm (unevenly floccose-tomentose to glabrate, especially distal stems, adaxial leaf faces, and phyllaries; rhizomes weakly spreading or suberect).
Stems

single.

single or loosely clustered.

Leaves

basal and cauline (basal and proximal sometimes withering before flowering, mid-stem leaves prominent at flowering);

petioles weakly defined;

blades oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate or spatulate, 5–15 × 0.5–3(–5) cm, margins subentire to coarsely dentate or subpinnatifid (distal leaves bractlike).

basal and cauline;

petioles weakly winged (passing into blades);

blades ovate to lanceolate, 3–5 × 0.5–1.5 cm, margins subentire to denticulate (cauline narrower, sessile, bractlike).

Involucres

± abruptly contracted to peduncles.

± abruptly contracted to peduncles.

Ray florets

(13–)21+;

corolla laminae 5–9+ mm (sometimes incompletely opened, appearing tubular).

usually 13;

corolla laminae 9–12 mm.

Disc florets

30–50;

corollas yellow.

30–50+;

corollas yellow.

Phyllaries

usually 21, green or yellowish green (tips sometimes pinkish), 4–10 mm.

usually 21, green (tips sometimes purplish), 6–8 mm.

Heads

(4–)6–20(–40+), in loose to crowded, corymbiform arrays.

1(–4).

Cypselae

glabrous;

pappi white or dirty white.

pubescent;

pappi white.

2n

= 48.

= 48.

Tephroseris palustris

Tephroseris tundricola

Phenology Flowering May–Sep. Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat Wet soils, shorelines, pond margins, brackish habitats Protected sites on talus and ridges
Elevation 0–1000 m (0–3300 ft) 0–300 m (0–1000 ft)
Distribution
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AK; IA; MI; MN; ND; SD; WI; AB; BC; LB; MB; NT; NU; ON; QC; SK; YT; Eurasia
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Alaskaw; ne Asia (Russia)
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Discussion

Tephroseris palustris varies greatly in stature and in distribution and persistence of tomentum. The variations have been used to distinguish infraspecific taxa or two species; contemporary thought is that the complex is best treated as a single, polymorphic species.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

In the flora area, Tephroseris tundricola is known only from the Bering Strait region. It is similar to T. lindstroemii; the two are treated in the same species in contemporary Russian floristic studies. Our plants are separable by the characters given in the key.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 20, p. 616. FNA vol. 20, p. 618.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Tephroseris Asteraceae > tribe Senecioneae > Tephroseris
Sibling taxa
T. frigida, T. kjellmanii, T. lindstroemii, T. tundricola, T. yukonensis
T. frigida, T. kjellmanii, T. lindstroemii, T. palustris, T. yukonensis
Synonyms Othonna palustris, Senecio arcticus, Senecio congestus, Senecio congestus var. laceratus, Senecio congestus var. palustris, Senecio congestus var. tonsus, Senecio tubicaulis, T. palustris subsp. congesta Senecio tundricola
Name authority (Linnaeus) Reichenbach: Fl. Saxon., 146. (1842) (Tolmatchew) Holub: Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 8: 174. (1973)
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