Senecio pauperculus Michx.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Asteraceae

• Scientific Name

  Senecio pauperculus Michx.

• Description

  Species Description - Perennial 1–5 dm from a rather short caudex, occasionally also with very short slender stolons or superficial rhizomes, lightly floccose-tomentose when young, generally soon glabrate, except often at the very base and in the axils; basal lvs mostly oblanceolate to elliptic, generally tapering to the petiolar base, crenate or serrate to subentire, seldom over 12 × 2 cm; cauline lvs ± pinnatifid, the lower sometimes much larger than the basal, the others conspicuously reduced and becoming sessile; heads seldom more than 20; disk 5–12 mm wide; invol 4–7 mm, its bracts often purple-tipped; rays 5–10 mm (rarely wanting); achenes glabrous or hispidulous; 2n=40–92, often 44 or 46. Meadows, moist prairies, streambanks, beaches and cliffs; Lab. to Alaska, s. to Ga. and Oreg., more common northward. May–July. (S. balsamitae)

• Common Names

  northen meadow-groundsel