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Packera actinella

Packera actinella
Photo: (c) Sue Carnahan, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Arizona to New Mexico and N. Mexico

About

Packera actinella, synonym Senecio actinella, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. Known as flagstaff ragwort, it is a perennial herb native to Arizona, New Mexico, and part of northern Mexico. It is an arid land plant, sending up solitary flowering heads on long stalks above a perennial basal mat in ponderosa pine forests.

Other Packera plants

Small's ragwort · Shale barren ragwort · Golden ragwort · San Bernardino ragwort · Bolander's ragwort · Brewer's ragwort · Woolly groundsel · Bittercress ragwort · Beaver Mountain ragwort · Cleveland's ragwort · Widehead groundsel · Fendler's ragwort

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Packera actinella by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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