Senecio jonesii Rydb.
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Authority
New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.
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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - A glabrous perennial: stem about 3 dm. high, slender, terete; basal leaves rounded-obovate, sinuately toothed, sometimes with a pair of small lobes at the base; their petioles often tinged with red: stem leaves oblanceolate in outline, pinnatifid with oblong segments, generally short-petioled: cyme corymbiform: heads about 8 mm. long: bracts 12-15, lanceolate, acuminate, about 2/3 as long as the disk, membranous margined; calyculate ones few, linear: rays about 5 mm. long and 2 mm. wide, 4-nerved: achenes very strongly striate, glabrous. Nearly related to the preceding, but differing in the toothing of the leaves and the form of the bracts. The type was collected at an altitude of 3300 m.
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Distribution
Utah: Alta, Wasatch Mountains, 1879, M. E. Jones, 1125 (type in the Columbia Herbarium).
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