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 Leaves Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Plant Max Licher @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) |  Fruit Patrick Alexander @http://swbiodiversity.org, Usage Rights: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) | | | |
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Origin:
Native
Life Cycle:
Perennial Similar Species: Senecio flaccidus
General Desc:
From taproots forming woody crowns; stems tufted, freely branching and arching upward; very leafy throughout; 1 to 3 minute, inconspicuous bracts; commonly dying back to the ground each winter.
Identification notes: Subshrub, base woody, stems, leaves not wooly-hairy; leaf blades narrow to thread-like, sometimes divided into narrow lobes; flower heads may have 1 to 3 minute, inconspicuous bracts; flower heads of yellow ray and disc in flat-topped rounded clusters.
Height:
7-1/2 to 47-1/4 inches
Habitat Description: Found on open sites, often dry and disturbed, especially along stream banks and on hillsides.
Plant Communities:
Desert Scrub, Interior Chaparral, Pinyon Juniper Woodland, Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: 4000 - 9000 feet
Color:
Yellow
Shape:
Regular in round clusters
Tubular:
Y
Flowering Period:
Jul - Oct
Description:
Flower heads yellow, showy and radiate, in compound flat-topped clusters; 10 to 20 heads; bracts 8 to 13 in single series, 1/2 inch long, tips green or minutely black; ray florets 5 per flower head, ray petals 3/4 inch long, yellow; disc florets yellow.
Leaf Color:
Green
Leaf Type:
Simple
Leaf Shape:
Narrow
Leaf Margin:
Smooth
Leaf Attachment:
Alternate
Leaves Clasp:
N
Hairs:
Leaves and stems
Spines:
N
Leaf Description:
Stems usually multiple, branching and arching upward; leaves alternate, fleshy, stemless or short-stalked, evenly distributed along stems, narrow or thread-like, 2 to 4 inches long; occasionally thread-like lobes; smooth or sparsely hairy.
Fruit Type: Achene
Fruit Notes: Usually hirtellous (minute and somewhat rigid hairs), sometimes smooth; topped with a pappus of capillary (hairlike) bristles.
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