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Podunk ragwort

Packera malmstenii

Podunk ragwort
Photo: Mark Madsen, USFS botanist per [1], Public domain
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Idaho to Nevada and Utah

About

Packera malmstenii is a rare species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name Podunk ragwort. It is endemic to Utah in the United States, where there about 19 occurrences in the southwestern part of the state.

This perennial herb is generally about 8 to 15 centimeters tall, growing from a branching rhizome. It produces one stem or a small cluster of stems and leaves with oval blades up to 2.5 centimeters long. There is one or more flower heads, each with 13 blue-green phyllaries about a centimeter in length. The head may contain ray florets, or these may be absent. Blooming occurs in July and August.

Other Packera plants

Packera actinella · 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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Packera malmstenii 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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