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Clark's Ragwort

Senecio clarkianus A. Gray

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Senecio clarkianus grows on west slopes of the central and southern Sierra Nevada.
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Flora of North America Vol. 20: 549, 566 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Perennials, (50–)60–100(–120) cm (caudices fibrous-rooted). Herbage sparsely floccose­­-to­me­ntose, unevenly glabrescent. Stems single. Leaves evenly distributed; petiolate; well-developed mid leaves: blades lanceolate to oblong,(8–)10–15(–18) × (2–)3–5(–9) cm overall, margins deeply dentate or irregularly pinnate-lobed to laciniate; distal leaves sessile, weakly clasping. Heads 8–20 in corymbiform arrays. Calyculi of 3–8+ linear to filiform bractlets (lengths 1 / 2 – 3 / 4 + phyllaries). Phyllaries ± 13 or ± 21, 5–8 mm, tips green. Ray florets ± 8 or ± 13; corolla laminae 8–12(–20) mm. Cypselae glabrous.
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Flora of North America Vol. 20: 549, 566 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Senecio clarkianus

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Senecio clarkianus is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Clark's ragwort.[1] It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California, where it grows in the moist meadows on the western slopes of the range. It is a perennial herb growing up to 1.2 meters tall from a caudex and fibrous root system. The solitary erect stem is lined evenly with leaves up to about 18 centimeters long, their blades deeply lobed or dissected into narrow, pointed segments. The herbage is hairy to woolly in texture. The inflorescence bears several flower heads which are lined with green-tipped phyllaries. They contain many yellow disc florets and each has usually 8 or 13 narrow yellow ray florets about a centimeter long, sometimes longer.

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  1. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "Senecio clarkianus". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 9 November 2015.

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Senecio clarkianus: Brief Summary

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Senecio clarkianus is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Clark's ragwort. It is endemic to the Sierra Nevada of California, where it grows in the moist meadows on the western slopes of the range. It is a perennial herb growing up to 1.2 meters tall from a caudex and fibrous root system. The solitary erect stem is lined evenly with leaves up to about 18 centimeters long, their blades deeply lobed or dissected into narrow, pointed segments. The herbage is hairy to woolly in texture. The inflorescence bears several flower heads which are lined with green-tipped phyllaries. They contain many yellow disc florets and each has usually 8 or 13 narrow yellow ray florets about a centimeter long, sometimes longer.

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