Packera plattensis (Nuttall) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve (Q2907)

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Packera plattensis is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Packera
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Packera plattensis (Nuttall) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve
Packera plattensis is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Packera

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    taxon/id/Packera plattensis (Nuttall) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve
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    Packera plattensis (Nuttall) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve
    Packera plattensis
    (Nuttall) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2006. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 20: Magnoliophyta: Asteridae, part 7: Asteraceae, part 2. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    (Nuttall) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve
    séneçon de la rivière Platte (French)
    prairie groundsel (English)
    Platte River groundsel (English)
    plains butterweed (English)
    Prairie groundsel (English)
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    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
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    Harms, V.L. 2006. Annotated catalogue of Saskatchewan vascular plants. http://www.biodiversity.sk.ca/Docs/AnnotatedCatalogueSKVascPlants2006.pdf
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    Mahoney, A.M. & R.R. Kowal. 2008. Three new varieties of Packera paupercula (Asteraceae, Senecioneae) in Midwestern and Southeastern North America. Novon 18: 220-228 http://dx.doi.org/10.3417/2006016
    Flowering mid Apr–early Jun(–mid Jul, north).
    prairies
    meadows
    wooded areas
    highways
    railroads
    mining
    construction areas
    limestone
    Stems 1 or 2–3, clustered, floccose-tomentose proximally and in leaf-axils, otherwise sparsely tomentose or glabrescent.
    Basal leaves (and proximal cauline) petiolate;
    blades narrowly elliptic to elliptic-ovate or oblanceolate to suborbiculate or sublyrate, 20–70+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering to rounded or abruptly contracted, margins subentire to crenate, serrate-dentate, or pinnately lobed (abaxial faces floccose-tomentose, especially along midribs, ± glabrescent).
    Cauline leaves gradually reduced (petiolate, sublyrate or pinnatisect, abaxial faces sparsely hairy; distals sessile, subentire to irregularly dissected).
    Heads 6–20+ in open or congested, corymbiform arrays.
    Peduncles conspicuously bracteate, sparsely to densely tomentose.
    Calyculi inconspicuous.
    Ray-florets 8–10;
    corolla laminae 9–10 mm.
    Disc-florets 60–70+;
    corolla-tubes 2.5–3.5 mm, limbs 3.5–4.5 mm.
    Cypselae 1.5–2.5 mm, usually hirtellous, sometimes glabrous;
    pappi 6.5–7.5 mm. 2n = 46, 92.