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Tephroseris palustris

Tephroseris palustris (L.) Rchb.  
Family: Asteraceae
[Senecio arcticus Rupr., moreSenecio palustris var. congestus (R. Br. ex Parry) Hook., Senecio tubicaulis Mansf., Tephroseris palustris subsp. congesta (R. Br.) Holub]
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Theodore M. Barkley+, David F. Murray in Flora of North America (vol. 20)
Annuals or biennials (perhaps rarely perennials), 20-100 cm (loosely arachnose or villous, hairs white, light yellowish, or reddish brown, indument fugitive in some populations; caudices fibrous-rooted). Stems single. Leaves basal and cauline (basal and proximal sometimes withering before flowering, mid-stem leaves prominent at flowering); petioles weakly defined; blades oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate or spatulate, 5-15 × 0.5-3(-5) cm, margins subentire to coarsely dentate or subpinnatifid (distal leaves bractlike). Heads (4-)6-20(-40+), in loose to crowded, corymbiform arrays. Involucres ± abruptly contracted to peduncles. Phyllaries usually 21, green or yellowish green (tips sometimes pinkish), 4-10 mm. Ray florets (13-)21+; corolla laminae 5-9+ mm (sometimes incompletely opened, appearing tubular). Disc florets 30-50; corollas yellow. Cypselae glabrous; pappi white or dirty white. 2n = 48.

Flowering May-Sep. Wet soils, shorelines, pond margins, brackish habitats; 0-1000 m; Alta., B.C., Man., Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.), N.W.T., Nunavut, Ont., Que., Sask., Yukon; Alaska, Iowa, Mich., Minn., N.Dak., S.Dak., Wis.; Eurasia.

Tephroseris palustris varies greatly in stature and in distribution and persistence of tomentum. The variations have been used to distinguish infraspecific taxa or two species; contemporary thought is that the complex is best treated as a single, polymorphic species.

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