Senecio pauciflorus Baker

  • 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 pauciflorus Baker

  • Description

    Species Description - This species, characterized by its few (2-6) rayless heads, linear purple tinged bracts, equaling the disk in length, and its small rounded-oval crenate basal leaves, has been collected several times in Labrador; but exactly similar specimens are in the Torrey herbarium and were collected by Burke in the Rocky Mountains, but the locaHty is not given. [Plate 5, f 3.]