Senecio integerrimus var. exaltatus (Nutt.) Cronquist

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Herbarium
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
MANHATTAN, KANSAS
PLANTS OF OREGON
Senecio hydrophilus Nutt,
BOTANICAL
botanical garden
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Up to 2 m. tall, grov/ing in a swamp• Note
the scanty pubescence suggestive of
§.• -integerrimus var, exaltatus. (cf. Leafl
West. Bot. 9:107. 1960.)
BENTON CO.: near Alsea
Collected by m , 0 .
Ted Sims
Spring, 1957
Col. No.
s.n.
Manhattan, Kansas 66504
September 9, 1964
Dear Art*
Just a quick note to straighten out a bum label
and misidentification on a Seneeio that was sent
to the NYBG last year or so* This may be trivial ,
but what hhe heck, it refers to Seneeio*
In my M.S* thesis reference was made to an odd,
tall, rather scantily pubescent plant that was more
or less intermediate between S. hydrophilys and
S, integerrimus« It was collected *in a swamp”
at Alsea» Oregon* This summer I went over this plant
and found that the same phase or form had been col-
lected before in the xame general region, namely the
west side of the "Willamette Valley* I borrowed the
pertinent specimens, but after studying the evi-
dence have concluded that there is no point In try-
ing to recognize it taxonomioally* There appears to
be no populational basis for itj presumably it
represents an occasional polyploid development.
Anyway, the specimen you have has a K.S.U*
herbarium label and it should be named S. inte-
gerrimus although it may be erroneously named S*
hydrophilus. The collector» TedSims, recently told
me that it was found on a well drained roadside,
not a swamp as the label states» at Alee a, Benton
County» Oregon* The date is merely^Spring» 1957**
Best regards,
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
Dickens Hall
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