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 Current range of S. ampullaceus.
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Senecio ampullaceus also known as Texas ragwort1, Texas squaw-weed, Texas groundsel,3 and Texas butterweed4 is a species of Senecio in the family Asteraceae and gets its latin name ampullaceus from its flask shaped flower-head5 and is a recommended native for landscape use in Texas where it came from.6
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Description
The seedlings of S. ampullaceus often have a purplish color on the undersides of their leaves in the winter, especially along their midrib.3 Flowering in early–mid spring,7 Texas ragwort is a tall annual,8 growing to from 20 centimeters (7.9 in) to 80 centimeters (31 in) tall and similar to S. quaylei.7
Stems and leaves: The leaves with broadly winged leaf stalks, grow from single stems; the nodes between leaves getting shorter and shorter higher on the stem. Ovate leaves with pointed tips 3 centimeters (1.2 in) to 10 centimeters (3.9 in) long by 1.5 centimeters (0.59 in) to 4 centimeters (1.6 in) wide with tapered bases. Leaves at the lower portion of the plant have more teeth on their edges than the leaves at the upper portion of the mature plant.7
Stems and leaves are covered loosely and unevenly with a mat of fine hairs, occasionally having no hairs.7
Flowers: Flowering stalks have 10 to 30 flower heads which as a group make a flat top to the whole plant. Each flower head is surrounded by 2 to 8 bractlets or mini-leaves, each 1 millimeter (0.039 in) to more than 2 millimeters (0.079 in). Approximately 13 green to grayish bracts, 7 millimeters (0.28 in) to 10 millimeters (0.39 in) long surrounding 8 ray florets and an 8 millimeters (0.31 in) to 10 millimeters (0.39 in) corolla.7
Fruits: One seeded fruits with rigid pappus.7
Roots: Roots relatively thin and branching.7
Distribution
S. ampullanceus prefers altitudes of 100 meters (330 ft) to 800 meters (2,600 ft) in open sandy or disturbed sites.7
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Varieties or subspecies which are synonyms
- Senecio ampullaceus var. floccosus Engelm. & A. Gray
- Senecio ampullaceus var. glaberrimus Engelm. & A. Gray127
References
- ^ a b c d Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). "PLANTS Profile, Senecio ampullaceus Hook." (HTML). The PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture,. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ Integrated Taxonomic Information System Organization (ITIS). "Senecio ampullaceus Hook." (HTML). Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ a b Texas A&M University. "Texas Groundsel, Texas Squaw-Weed" (PDF). Retrieved on 2008-04-10.
- ^ Peterson Field Guide, Theodore F. Niehaus [1984]. "Tall-stemmed Butterweeds", A Field Guide to Southwestern and Texas Wildflowers, Illustrations by Charles L. Ripper, The Peterson Field Guide Series, New York, New York 100003: Houghton Mifflin Company, 449 pages. ISBN 0395936128. Retrieved on 2008-04-09.
- ^ Holloway, Joel Ellis; Amanda Neill. "Section 36", A Dictionary of Common Wildflowers of Texas & the Southern Great Plains (HTML), TCU Press, 2005. ISBN 087565309X. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ Federal Highway Administration (2005-07-11). "Native Plants for Landscape Use in Texas" (HTML). State Plant Listings. United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Flora of North America. "32. Senecio ampullaceus Hooker" (HTML) Page 548, 561. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ University of Texas at Austin. "Senecio ampullaceus" (HTML). Image Archive of Central Texas Plants. University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ Flora of Missouri. "Senecio ampullaceus Hook." (HTML) Page 1654. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ Walter C. Holmes, Jason R. Singhurst, Steve G. Powers (September 2006). "SENECIO AMPULLACEUS (ASTERACEAE): A WEST GULF COASTAL PLAIN ENDEMIC NEW TO OKLAHOMA" (PDF). Phytologia 88 (2): 193–195, http://www.phytologia.org/Phytologia%20PDFs/88(2)pdfFiles/88(2)193-196Holmes.pdf. Retrieved on 8 April 2008.
- ^ Ozarks Regional Herbarium (2002-06-26). "ADVENTIVE TAXA OF MISSOURI" (HTML). CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE OZARKS REGIONAL HERBARIUM. Missouri State University. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
- ^ Missouri Botanical Garden. "Senecio ampullaceus Hook." (HTML). Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Retrieved on 2008-04-08.
External links
Information related to Senecio ampullaceus from Wikispecies.
Media related to Senecio ampullaceus at Wikimedia Commons
