Senecio fulgens Rydb.

  • Authority

    New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.

  • Family

    Asteraceae

  • Scientific Name

    Senecio fulgens Rydb.

  • Description

    Species Description - Simple and glabrous perennial with a very short caudex; stem about 3 cm. high: basal leaves oblanceolate, thick and somewhat fleshy, with the petiole about 5 cm. long, dentate or subentire: lower stem leaves spatulate with a winged petiole, coarsely dentate; upper stem leaves sessile with an auricled base, lobed with triangular or triangular lanceolate lobes, acute: cyme corymbose and rather dense: heads about 8 mm. high: bracts about 15, oblong, acute, with a broad membranous margin; the calyculate ones few, lanceolate: achene striate, glabrous: rays 4-5 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, dark orange.

  • Discussion

    Closely related to the preceding, but differing in the short basal leaves and the lobed upper stem leaves and also in the fewer and broader bracts. It grows at an altitude of about 2700 m. [Plate 6,f. 1 3-]

    Wyoming: Grand Creek, Teton Forest Reserve, 1897, F. Tivecdy, 584. (type in the herbarium of N. Y. Botanical Garden).

  • Distribution

    Wyoming

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