Packera plattensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Asterales
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Packera
- Species
- Packera plattensis
- Scientific Name
- Packera plattensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Packera plattensis
Packera plattensis, commonly known as prairie ragwort or prairie groundsel, is a species of the genus Packera and family Asteraceae. It used to be placed in the genus Senecio.
Prairie groundsel is found throughout the tallgrass prairie region. It blooms fairly early for a prairie wildflower: from April to July depending on the climate.
It is easily confused with golden ragwort (Packera aurea) which has a hairless stem and heart-shaped basal leaves, and Senecio integerrimus, which has leaves that are mostly entire instead of fern-like, and much larger basal leaves.
...Packera plattensis in languages:
- English
- Prairie Groundsel
- English
- Prairie Ragwort
- French
- Séneçon de la rivière Platte
- French
- séneçon des prairies
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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






















































































































































