Comments
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Senecio spribillei (from Snowshoe Peak, Cabinet Mountains) is similar in aspect to S. neowebsteri of the Olympic Mountains, Washington.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
Description
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Perennials, 5–20 cm (caudices branched). Herbage glabrous. Stems usually single. Leaves progressively reduced distally (basal and proximal withering before flowering); petiolate (petioles purplish, weakly winged, 4–5 cm); blades broadly triangular-ovate to suborbiculate, 2–4(–5) × 2.5–3 cm, bases truncate to ± cuneate, margins coarsely spinulose-dentate (mid leaves similar, persistent). Heads nodding, 4–6. Calyculi of "few," linear bractlets. Phyllaries ± 13, 7–9 mm, tips green. Ray florets "few"; corolla laminae ca. 7 mm (inconspicuous, equaling or barely surpassing phyllaries). Cypselae glabrous.
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