Parasenecio auriculatus

Perennials, scattered-hairy; caudices stout. Stems mostly single. Leaves: petiole lengths ± ¹ / 2 blades; blades sometimes lobed, the larger 7-15+ × 11-25+ cm. Peduncles bracteolate. Phyllaries 5-8 mm. Disc corollas 5-7 mm. Cypselae 4-5 mm; pappi 5-7 mm. 2n = 60 (Asia).

Flowering summer. Thickets and subalpine meadows; probably below 300 m; Alaska; Asia (Russian Far East).

Parasenecio auriculatus occurs chiefly from northern Japan and Manchuria northward; it barely enters the flora area in the western Aleutian Islands, as far east as Kiska Island. The species is variable; some floristicians have recognized infraspecific taxa. Plants in the flora area have been treated as var. or subsp. kamtschatica (-us) in various combinations; current opinion suggests that they be recognized simply as P. auriculatus.