Senecio integerrimus

  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Common Name: lambstongue ragwort
  • Symbol: SEIN2
  • Description: Perennials (possibly biennials), (10-)20-70 cm (cau dices button like, 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)

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