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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Senecio crassulus
|accepted_authority=A. Gray
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=19: 54. 1883
|year=1883
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Senecio lapathifolius
|authority=Greene
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Senecio semiamplexicaulis
|authority=Rydberg
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Senecio;Senecio crassulus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Senecio]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Senecio crassulus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 546, 547
|treatment_page=page 551
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> (15–)20–50(–70) cm (rhizomes branched, ± woody). <b>Herbage</b> glabrous. <b>Stems</b> 1–(2–4). <b>Leaves</b> (thickish-turgid) progressively reduced distally; petiolate; blades broadly lanceolate to subelliptic, 2.5–15 × 1–5 cm, bases tapered, margins sharply dentate to subentire (some teeth callous; mid leaves sometimes larger than proximal; distal leaves sessile, smaller, often clasping). <b>Heads</b> (1–)4–12 in corymbiform arrays. <b>Calyculi</b> of (1–)3–6 linear to filiform bractlets (lengths to 1/3 phyllaries). <b>Phyllaries</b> (± 8) ± 13 or ± 21, 5–9 mm, tips black (villous). <b>Ray</b> florets ± 8 or ± 13; corolla laminae 5–12 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> glabrous. <b>2n</b> = 40.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Moist to drying hillsides, meadows, other open places in forest associations
|elevation=2200–3700 m
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wyo.
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name=Senecio crassulus
|author=
|authority=A. Gray
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Senecio lapathifolius;Senecio semiamplexicaulis
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Moist to drying hillsides, meadows, other open places in forest associations
|elevation=2200–3700 m
|distribution=Colo.;Idaho;Mont.;Nev.;N.Mex.;Oreg.;S.Dak.;Utah;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1883
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Senecio
|species=Senecio crassulus
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