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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Rugelia
|accepted_authority=Shuttleworth ex Chapman
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Fl. S.E. U.S.,
|place=246. 1860
|year=1860
}}
|common_names=Rugelia;Rugel’s ragwort;winter well
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Rugelia
|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>[[Rugelia]]</div></div>
|etymology=For Ferdinand Ignatius Xavier Rugel, 1806–1878, original collector of the species
|volume=Volume 20
|mention_page=page 543
|treatment_page=page 625
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 20–40(–50) cm (rhizomes creeping, roots fibrous, branched). <b>Stems</b> 1(–3), erect (scapiform, sparsely arachnoid, unevenly glabrescent proximally, hirsute and/or stipitate-glandular distally). <b>Leaves</b> mostly basal (cauline smaller); alternate; petiolate (bases ± sheathing); blades palmately or palmati-pinnately nerved, ovate to nearly cordate, margins dentate to denticulate, abaxial faces tomentose to arachnose-villous, glabrescent or glabrate, adaxial puberulent or glabrate. <b>Heads</b> discoid (often ± nodding), in cymiform (terminal or axillary) arrays. <b>Calyculi</b> 0 or of 1–3 bractlets. <b>Involucres</b> cylindric or turbinate, 10–12+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, 10–15 in 1–2 series, erect (spreading in age), distinct, lance-linear to linear, equal, margins ± scarious (abaxial faces ± hirsute). <b>Receptacles</b> flat or convex, smooth or ± foveolate, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 0. <b>Disc</b> florets 30–40(–80+), bisexual, fertile; corollas usually ochroleucous or whitish, sometimes greenish, tubes shorter to longer than narrowly cylindric throats, lobes 5, erect or spreading, lanceolate to lance-linear; style branches: stigmatic areas continuous or in 2 lines, apices truncate to rounded-truncate. <b>Cypselae</b> cylindro-fusiform, 20-nerved, glabrous; pappi persistent, of 80–120, whitish to stramineous, barbellulate to smooth bristles (equaling or surpassing involucres). <b>x</b> = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=se United States.
|discussion=<p>Species 1.</p>
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name=Rugelia
|author=Theodore M. Barkley†
|authority=Shuttleworth ex Chapman
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|distribution=se United States.
|reference=None
|publication title=Fl. S.E. U.S.,
|publication year=1860
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae
|genus=Rugelia
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