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Senecio taraxacoides
(Gray) Greene
Family:
Asteraceae
Dandelion Ragwort
[
Ligularia taraxacoides
(A.Gray) W.A.Weber,
more
Senecio amplectens var. taraxacoides
A.Gray
]
FNA
Resources
Theodore M. Barkley+ in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
Perennials,
5-10(-14) cm (caudi-ces branched, fibrous-rooted).
Herbage
(sometimes purple-tinged) floccose-tomentose (persistently on abaxial faces of leaves, glabrescent elsewhere).
Stems
single or loosely clustered.
Leaves
± evenly distributed; petiolate; blades oblanceolate to ovate, (1-)2-6 × 1-2.5 cm, bases tapered, margins dentate or incised to subpinnatifid (distal leaves bractlike).
Heads
1(-5).
Calyculi
of 2-5 lance-linear bractlets (lengths
1
/ 3 -
2
/ 3 phyllaries).
Phyllaries
± 13 or ± 21, 7-10 mm, tips green.
Ray florets
usually ± 13, sometimes fewer or 0; corolla laminae 8-12 mm.
Cypselae
glabrous.
2
n
= 40.
Late summer. Alpine peaks; 3500-4000 m; Colo., N.Mex.
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