Senecio salicinus 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 floccose perennial, with a short cespitose'caudex: stems several, about 4 dm. high, simple below, striate and floccose: basal leaves 5-10 cm. long, narrowly oblanceolate, the first ones subentire, but most of them serrate exxept at the tapering base, finely tomentose on both sides, but in age more glabrate above: stem leaves small, linear, sessile, dentate, slightly auricled at the base: cyme compound: the heads subumbellate at the ends of the branches, 7-8 mm. high, slightly floccose at the base: bracts yellowish, thin, lanceolate, shorter than the disk: rays light yellow, short and broad, 3-4 mm. long and 2 mm. wide: achenes striate, glabrous. A species related to S. Fendleri, but characterized by the narrow, merely serrate basal leaves, the small subumbellate heads in a short, flat-topped inflorescence with widely spreading ultimate branches. It grows in the foothills at an altitude of about 1800 m. [Plate 6, f. 6.]
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Distribution
Colorado: J. Laramie Co., 1895, J. H. Cozven (type in the herbarium of N. Y. Botanical Garden).
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