Senecio clarkianus

A. Gray

Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 7: 362. 1868.

Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 566. Mentioned on page 549.

Perennials, (50–) 60–100 (–120) cm (caudices fibrous-rooted). Herbage sparsely floccose-tomentose, unevenly glabrescent. Stems single. Leaves evenly distributed; petiolate; well-developed mid leaves: blades lanceolate to oblong, (8–) 10–15 (–18) × (2–) 3–5 (–9) cm overall, margins deeply dentate or irregularly pinnate-lobed to laciniate; distal leaves sessile, weakly clasping. Heads 8–20 in corymbiform arrays. Calyculi of 3–8+ linear to filiform bractlets (lengths 1/2–3/4+ phyllaries). Phyllaries ± 13 or ± 21, 5–8 mm, tips green. Ray-florets ± 8 or ± 13; corolla laminae 8–12 (–20) mm. Cypselae glabrous.


Phenology: Flowering late summer.
Habitat: Moist meadows, conifer-dominated sites
Elevation: 1400–2700 m

Discussion

Senecio clarkianus grows on west slopes of the central and southern Sierra Nevada.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
papillate +
truncate-penicillate +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lance-linear +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Theodore M. Barkley† +
A. Gray +
decurrent +
15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br /> (18 cm180 mm <br />0.18 m <br />) +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (9 cm90 mm <br />0.09 m <br />) +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
lanceolate;oblong +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
winged;nerved;ribbed +
linear;filiform +
barbellulate +  and smooth +
white +  and stramineous +
purplish +, reddish +, white +, ochroleucous +, yellow +  and white rarely reddish +
1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
angled +, 5-ribbed +, prismatic +  and cylindric +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
1400–2700 m +
hairy +  and glabrous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Moist meadows, conifer-dominated sites +
discoid +  and radiate +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
glabrescent +  and floccose-tomentose +
each +  and sessile +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
turbinate;campanulate +
distributed +
cauline +  and basal +
erect;recurved +
deltate +
dentate to pinnatifid +  and entire +
irregularly pinnate-lobed +  and laciniate +
well-developed +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
Flowering late summer. +
mostly oblong +  and lanceolate or linear +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
flat;convex +
exalbuminous +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Compositae +
Senecio clarkianus +
species +
campanulate +
denticulate +  and serrate or toothed +
100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br /> (120 cm1,200 mm <br />1.2 m <br />) +
60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br /> (250 cm2,500 mm <br />2.5 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +