Packera indecora: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Packera
- Species
- Packera indecora
- Scientific Name
- Packera indecora
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Packera indecora
Packera indecora is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names elegant groundsel and rayless mountain ragwort. It is native to northern North America including most of Canada and sections of the northernmost United States. It grows in moist mountain habitats, such as streamsides and meadows.
It is a perennial herb producing a single stem or a cluster of 2 or 3 stems from a branching caudex and a taproot. The plant reaches heights of ten centimeters to one meter. The leaves have thin, oblong or oval blades a few centimeters long borne on long petioles. Smaller, more intricately divided leaves may occur higher up the stem.
The inflorescence is an umbel-shaped array of up to 20 or more flower heads, each lined with green- or red-tipped phyllaries. The head contains many disc florets and occasionally a tiny yellow ray floret, though these are usually absent.
...Packera indecora in languages:
- English
- rayless mountain ragwort
- English
- rayless mountain butterweed
- French
- séneçon sans rayons
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Packera anonyma
- Packera antennariifolia
- Packera aurea
- Packera bellidifolia
- Packera bernardina
- Packera bolanderi
- Packera breweri
- Packera cana
- Packera candidissima
- Packera cardamine
- 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
- Packera tampicana
- Packera texensis
- Packera thurberi
- Packera toluccana
- Packera tridenticulata
- Packera umbraculifera
- Packera werneriifolia
- Packera zimapanica