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Packera pauciflora
rayless alpine butterweed, rayless alpine groundsel
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Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska to northern Washington, disjunct in California and northwest Wyoming, east to Northwest Territory and Alberta, also in eastern Canada.

Habitat: Alpine and subalpine meadows and moist cliffs.

Flowers: June-August

Origin: Native

Growth Duration: Perennial

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Pollination: Bees, flies, beetles, wasps

Description:
General:

Glabrous, fibrous-rooted perennial from a short, woody base, 1.5-4 dm. tall.

Leaves:

Somewhat succulent, the basal ones mostly elliptic-ovate to sub-rotund, abruptly contracted to the truncate base, with rounded teeth and a petiole; cauline leaves reduced and becoming sessile on the upper part of the stem, bluntly toothed or pinnatifid with blunt lobes.

Flowers:

Heads 2-6, rarely more, orange or reddish, rayless; involucre 6-8 mm. high, its bracts generally suffused with reddish-purple.

Identification Notes:

The few discoid heads with orange or reddish disk flowers, along with the rather succulent leaves, should identify this species.

Accepted Name:
Packera pauciflora (Pursh) Á. Löve & D. Löve
Publication: Bot. Not. 128: 520. 1976.

Synonyms & Misapplications:
Senecio pauciflorus Pursh [HC]
Additional Resources:

PNW Herbaria: Specimen records of Packera pauciflora in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database

WA Flora Checklist: Packera pauciflora checklist entry

OregonFlora: Packera pauciflora information

E-Flora BC: Packera pauciflora atlas page

CalPhotos: Packera pauciflora photos

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