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Senecio crassulus
Senecio crassulus
Gray
Family:
Asteraceae
[
Senecio crassulus var. cusickii
]
Flora of North America
Resources
Theodore M. Barkley+ in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
Perennials,
(15-)20-50(-70) cm (rhizomes branched, ± woody).
Herbage
glabrous.
Stems
1-(2-4).
Leaves
(thickish-turgid) progressively reduced distally; petiolate; blades broadly lanceolate to subelliptic, 2.5-15 × 1-5 cm, bases tapered, margins sharply dentate to subentire (some teeth callous; mid leaves sometimes larger than proximal; distal leaves sessile, smaller, often clasping).
Heads
(1-)4-12 in corymbiform arrays.
Calyculi
of (1-)3-6 linear to filiform bractlets (lengths to
1
/ 3 phyllaries).
Phyllaries
(± 8) ± 13 or ± 21, 5-9 mm, tips black (villous).
Ray florets
± 8 or ± 13; corolla laminae 5-12 mm.
Cypselae
glabrous.
2
n
= 40. Flowering summer. Moist to drying hillsides, meadows, other open places in forest associations; 2200-3700 m; Colo., Idaho, Mont., Nev., N.Mex., Oreg., S.Dak., Utah, Wyo.
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