Packera greenei: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Packera
- Species
- Packera greenei
- Scientific Name
- Packera greenei
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Packera greenei
Packera greenei is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name flame ragwort. It is endemic to northern California, where it is known from the North Coast Ranges and southern Klamath Mountains. It is a resident of dry mountain scrub habitat, often on serpentine soils.
It is a perennial herb producing a single stem with a basal rosette of leaves from a rhizome. It generally grows 20 to 30 centimeters tall. The basal leaves have oval blades up to 5 or 6 centimeters long borne on long petioles. They are green, usually with purple undersides. Smaller leaves may occur higher up the stem.
The inflorescence contains one or more flower heads, each lined with woolly, green- or red-tipped phyllaries. The head bears up to 13 narrow ray florets which are a distinctive orange or red-orange in color. They may approach 2 centimeters long.
...Packera greenei in languages:
- English
- flame ragwort
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Packera aurea
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- Packera candidissima
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- Packera castoreus
- Packera clevelandii
- Packera coahuilensis
- Packera contermina
- Packera crawfordii
- Packera crocata
- Packera cymbalaria
- Packera cynthioides
- Packera debilis
- Packera dimorphophylla
- Packera dubia
- Packera eurycephala
- Packera eurycephalus
- Packera fendleri
- Packera flettii
- Packera franciscana
- Packera ganderi
- Packera glabella
- Packera greenei
- Packera hartiana
- Packera hesperia
- Packera heterophylla
- Packera hintoniorum
- Packera hyperborealis
- Packera indecora
- Packera insulae-regalis
- Packera ionophylla
- Packera layneae
- Packera loratifolia
- Packera macounii
- Packera malmstenii
- Packera millefolium
- Packera millelobata
- Packera montereyana
- Packera moranii
- Packera multilobata
- Packera musiniensis
- Packera neomexicana
- Packera obovata
- Packera ogotorukensis
- Packera pauciflora
- Packera paupercula
- Packera plattensis
- Packera porteri
- Packera pseudaurea
- Packera quebradensis
- Packera quercetorum
- Packera rosei
- Packera sanguisorbae
- Packera sanguisorboides
- Packera scalaris
- Packera schweinitziana
- Packera serpenticola
- Packera spellenbergii
- Packera streptanthifolia
- Packera subnuda
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- Packera texensis
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