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Senecio bernardinus

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Identification
Isotype of Senecio bernardinus Greene [family COMPOSITAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Packera bernardina (Greene) W.A.Weber & A.Love [family COMPOSITAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Packera bernardina
  • Senecio bernardinus
Common name
  • San Bernardino ragwort, Flora of North America Vol. 20

Flora

Entry for Packera bernardina (Greene) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve [family COMPOSITAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 20,
Names
Packera bernardina (Greene) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve [family COMPOSITAE], Phytologia, 49: 45. 1981
Senecio bernardinus Greene [family COMPOSITAE], Pittonia, 3: 298. 1898
Senecio bernardinus var. sparsilobatus (Parish) Greenman [family COMPOSITAE]
Senecio ionophyllus Greene var. bernardinus (Greene) H. M. Hall [family COMPOSITAE]
Senecio ionophyllus var. sparsilobatus (Parish) H. M. Hall [family COMPOSITAE]
Senecio sparsilobatus Parish [family COMPOSITAE]
Treatment Author(s)
Debra K. Trock
Information
Perennials, 15–30+ cm; fibrous-rooted (caudices branched, erect to suberect). Stems 1 (per rosette, rosettes clustered), lanate-tomentose to glabrescent. Basal leaves (and proximal cauline) petiolate; blades obovate to broadly spatulate, 5–20+ × 10–15 mm, bases tapering, margins subentire or dentate apically (faces lanate-tomentose to glabrescent). Cauline leaves gradually reduced (sessile; spatulate to linear, densely tomentose). Heads 2–8+ in compact cymiform arrays. Peduncles bracteate, densely lanate-tomentose. Calyculi 0. Phyllaries 13 or 21, green, 6–8 mm, lanate-tomentose, glabrate distally. Ray florets 8 or 13; corolla laminae 8–10 mm. Disc florets 35–50+; corolla tubes 2–2.5 mm, limbs 2–2.5 mm. Cypselae 0.75–1 mm, glabrous or hispid on ribs; pappi 3–4 mm. 2n = 46.
Conservation Status
of conservation concern;
Phenology
may (spring), jun-jul (summer)
Altitude range
1700–2200 m;
Distribution
USA Calif.
Discussion
Packera bernardina is known only from the San Bernardino Mountains and has been collected most frequently from Bear Valley.

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