Tephroseris palustris |
Tephroseris tundricola |
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marsh fleabane, marsh woolly-groundsel, swamp ragwort |
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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 |
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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 |
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) |
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 |
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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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