Packera bernardina

(Greene) W. A. Weber & Á. Löve

Phytologia 49: 45. 1981.

Common names: San Bernardino ragwort
Basionym: Senecio bernardinus Greene Pittonia 3: 298. 1898
Synonyms: Senecio bernardinus var. sparsilobatus (Parish) Greenman Senecio ionophyllus var. bernardinus (Greene) H. M. Hall Senecio ionophyllus var. sparsilobatus (Parish) H. M. Hall Senecio sparsilobatus unknown
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Perennials, 15–30+ cm; fibrous-rooted (caudices branched, erect to suberect). Stems 1 (per rosette, rosettes clustered), lanate-tomentose to glabrescent. Basal leaves (and proximal cauline) petiolate; blades obovate to broadly spatulate, 5–20+ × 10–15 mm, bases tapering, margins subentire or dentate apically (faces lanate-tomentose to glabrescent). Cauline leaves gradually reduced (sessile; spatulate to linear, densely tomentose). Heads 2–8+ in compact cymiform arrays. Peduncles bracteate, densely lanate-tomentose. Calyculi 0. Phyllaries 13 or 21, green, 6–8 mm, lanate-tomentose, glabrate distally. Ray florets 8 or 13; corolla laminae 8–10 mm. Disc florets 35–50+; corolla tubes 2–2.5 mm, limbs 2–2.5 mm. Cypselae 0.75–1 mm, glabrous or hispid on ribs; pappi 3–4 mm. 2n = 46.


Phenology: Flowering late May–late Jul.
Habitat: Dry rocky slopes, duff of pine forests
Elevation: 1700–2200 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Packera bernardina is known only from the San Bernardino Mountains and has been collected most frequently from Bear Valley.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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Dry rocky slopes, duff of pine forests +
Flowering late May–late Jul. +
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