Senecio integerrimus
Gen. N. Amer. Pl. 2: 165. 1818.
Perennials (possibly biennials), (10–) 20–70 cm (caudices buttonlike, roots fleshy-fibrous). Herbage arachnose, loosely tomentose, or villous (hairs crisped, jointed), glabrescent. Stems single. Leaves progressively reduced distally; ± petiolate; blades elliptic, lanceolate, linear, oblanceolate, rounded-deltate, or suborbiculate, 6–25 × 1–6 cm, bases ± tapered or truncate to cordate, margins entire or ± dentate (distal leaves sessile, bractlike). Heads 6–20 (–40+) in corymbiform arrays (peduncle of terminal head often shorter than others). Calyculi of 1–5+ linear to filiform bractlets (seldom more than 2 mm). Phyllaries usually ± 13 or ± 21, rarely ± 8, (4–) 5–12 (–15) mm, tips usually black, sometimes green. Ray-florets usually ± 8 or ± 13, sometimes 0; corolla laminae 6–15 (–20) mm (usually yellow, ochroleucous to white in one variety). Cypselae usually glabrous, sometimes hirtellous (mostly on angles). 2n = 40, 80.
Distribution
Alta., B.C., Man., Sask., Calif., Colo., Idaho, Iowa, Kans., Minn., Mont., N.Dak., N.Mex., Nebr., Nev., Oreg., S.Dak., Utah, Wash., Wyo.
Discussion
Varieties 5 (5 in the flora).
The varieties of Senecio integerrimus are distinguished by morphology and geography.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
Key
| 1 | Basal leaves with distinct petioles, blades usually ovate to rounded-deltate, sometimes obovate to oblanceolate; ray corollas white or ochroleucous | Senecio integerrimus var. ochroleucus |
| 1 | Basal leaves with or without distinct petioles, blades elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate, rounded-deltate, sublinear, or suborbiculate; ray corollas yellow (or rays 0) | > 2 |
| 2 | Herbage glabrous or glabrate at flowering (except in leaf axils and among heads); phyllaries linear-subulate, tips usually green, minutely (if at all) black | Senecio integerrimus var. integerrimus |
| 2 | Herbage usually arachnose, tomentose, or villous at flowering; phyllaries lanceolate to linear-subulate, tips black (if minutely so, then narrowly lanceolate and broader than subulate) | > 3 |
| 3 | Basal and proximal leaves oblong or lanceolate to sublinear; heads 3–6(–16+); phyllaries 10–15+ mm | Senecio integerrimus var. scribneri |
| 3 | Basal and proximal leaves mostly elliptic to oblanceolate, sometimes elliptic or rounded-deltate to suborbiculate; heads usually 6–15(–30+; if fewer than 6, leaves lanceolate or broader); phyllaries 5–12 mm. | > 4 |
| 4 | Plants copiously arachnose, tomentose, or villous at flowering; phyllaries linear-subulate, 8–12 mm, tips minutely, if at all, blackened | Senecio integerrimus var. major |
| 4 | Plants copiously to sparsely arachnose, tomentose, or villous at flowering; phyllaries mostly lanceolate (seldom as narrow as linear-subulate), 5–10 mm, tips black | Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus |