View source for Packera pauciflora

{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Packera pauciflora
|accepted_authority=(Pursh) Á. Löve & D. Löve
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Bot. Not.
|place=128: 520. 1976
|year=1976
}}
|common_names=Alpine groundsel
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Senecio pauciflorus
|authority=Pursh
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Senecio aureus var. discoideus
|authority=Hooker
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Senecio discoideus
|authority=(Hooker) Britton
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Senecio lembertii
|authority=Greene
}}
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Packera;Packera pauciflora
|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>[[Packera]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Packera pauciflora]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 572, 590
|treatment_page=page 595
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 20–40+ cm; fibrous-rooted (caudices weakly spreading, horizontal to erect). <b>Stems</b> 1 or 2–3, clustered, glabrous or glabrate. <b>Basal</b> leaves (relatively thick and turgid) petiolate; blades elliptic-ovate, ovate, or subreniform, 20–40+ × 10–30+ mm, bases tapering to subcordate, margins dentate to crenate (proximal cauline leaves petiolate; margins dissected to pinnatifid). <b>Cauline</b> leaves gradually reduced (sessile, subentire). <b>Heads</b> 1–6+ in open to compact, subumbelliform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> bracteate (bractlets cyanic or reddish), glabrous or sparsely tomentose distally. <b>Calyculi</b> conspicuous (bractlets deep red or at least apices deep red to purple). <b>Phyllaries</b> 13 or 21, deep red or green (then tips deep red to purple), 7–10 mm, glabrous. <b>Ray</b> florets 0 or 8–13; corolla laminae (deep orange-yellow) 5–7 mm. <b>Disc</b> florets 60–80+; corolla tubes 1.5–2.5 mm, limbs 2.5–3.5 mm. <b>Cypselae</b> 1–1.5 mm, glabrous; pappi 3–4.5 mm. <b>2n</b> = 46, 130+.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering early Jul–late Aug.
|habitat=Damp meadows or woods, subalpine to alpine in west, lower in east
|elevation=0–2700 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Wash.;Wyo.
|discussion=<p>Heads of <i>Packera pauciflora</i> are usually discoid. Its range and habitat overlap those of <i>P. indecora</i>; the two can be difficult to distinguish. Disjunction from principal distribution to Sierra <i>Nevada</i> of California is 1200 km.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Packera pauciflora
|author=
|authority=(Pursh) Á. Löve & D. Löve
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Senecio aureus var. discoideus;Senecio discoideus;Senecio lembertii
|basionyms=Senecio pauciflorus
|family=Asteraceae
|phenology=Flowering early Jul–late Aug.
|habitat=Damp meadows or woods, subalpine to alpine in west, lower in east
|elevation=0–2700 m
|distribution=Alta.;B.C.;Nfld. and Labr.;N.W.T.;Ont.;Que.;Yukon;Alaska;Calif.;Wash.;Wyo.
|reference=None
|publication title=Bot. Not.
|publication year=1976
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/8f726806613d60c220dc4493de13607dd3150896/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V19-20-21/V20_1331.xml
|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Packera
|species=Packera pauciflora
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