Senecio neomexicanus A.Gray
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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 - The original publication of this species is generally given as Proc. Amer. Acad. 19: 55, but no description is there to be found. As far as I can find, the one in the S}'noptical Flora is the first published. Probably more than one species is included in that description and in the specimens cited below there are apparently three different types, but it has been impossible for me to find any constant characters by which to distinguish them. In one of them the stem leaves are more or less lyrate-pinnatifid and even the basal ones occasionally have a few lobes on the petiole, while in the others the stem leaves are narrow and merely toothed. The tomentum is sometimes deciduous, sometimes almost persistent. It grows at an altitude of 1200-2500 m. [Plate 6, fig. 7.]
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Discussion
New Mexico: Silver City, Pinos Altos Mts., 1880, E. L. Greene ; between Santa Fe and Canoncito, 1897, A. A. & E. Gertrude Heller, 3749.; Organ Mts., 1895, E. O. Wooton ; P. V. LcRoy. Arizona: Fort Huachuca, 1892, T. E. Wilcox ; 1876, E. Palmer, 614 ; Santa Catalina Mts, 1883, C. G. Pringle ; San Francisco Mts., 1 88 1, H. H. Rusby, 212; Mogollon Mts., 1887, E. A. Meavns, 171; Squaw Creek