Eastern Mojave Vegetation Coll. No. 3332, Senecio crassulus.  
 

 

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Photographed 29 December 2024.

Plants of Colorado
Asteraceae

Senecio crassulus A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. 19: 54. 1883.  Mountain Meadow Ragwort.

Brumley, Lake County, Colorado. Near the site of the stagecoach stop of Brumley, about 11 miles generally west on CO State Highway 82 from the town of Twin Lakes, Lake County, 27.8 km. southwest of Leadville, 135 km. southwest of Golden. 39.09574°N, 106.54337°W. WGS 1984 Elev. 3250 m. Bank above North Fork of Lake Creek, full sun in a thicket of low-growing willows.

Collected by permit: Pike San Isabel National Forest, 2024, issued: Jun 1, 2024, to: Tom Schweich.

Tom Schweich 3332. 23-Jul-2024

Coll. No. 3332, 23 July 2024, characters observed: Perennial herb, 37 cm., caudex button-like, eglandular; Stem, glabrous; Leaves, alternate, petiole 43 mm., blade 75 mm. × 22 mm. wide, reduced distally, oblanceolate, mid-vein abaxially broad and margined, margin subtly dentate, few enlarged cells with a central cell larger (glandular?); Inflorescence, heads, 3-4 per stem, >leaves, erect; Peduncles, 4, 35, 50, 55 mm.; Involucre, 8 mm. × 8 mm. wide, cylindric; Phyllaries, 1 series, 6 mm. × 1.2 mm. wide, eglandular, tips, acute, black; Receptacle, epaleate; Flowers, 2 kinds Ray flowers, #13-15, tube 3.3 mm. + blade 9 mm. × 4 mm. wide, yellow, fertile; Disk flowers, many, tube 7 mm. + lobes 1 mm., yellow; Pappus, many well-developed capillary bristles, 5.5 mm., ±equal; Style, 2-branched; Cypsela, 2.0-2.6 mm. × 1 mm. wide, light brown, glabrous;

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