Packera pseudaurea (Rydb.) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve
Streambank Groundsel
Asteraceae (Aster family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
Streambank Groundsel
Asteraceae (Aster family)
Introduction to Vascular Plants
SUBTAXA PRESENT IN BC
Packera pseudaurea var. pseudaurea
Species Information
General:
Perennial herb from a fibrous-rooted, short, ascending or horizontal rhizome or woody stem-base; stems erect, solitary, branched above, glabrous to nearly glabrous, 20-70 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves heart-shaped, round, elliptic to egg-shaped or oblanceolate, stalked, 2-20 cm long including the stalk, 1-6 cm wide, toothed, lightly white woolly-hairy at first, soon becoming glabrous; stem leaves few, oblanceolate, raggedly toothed, progressively reduced upwards, becoming unstalked.
Flowers:
Heads few to many on hairy stalks in a clustered inflorescence; involucres 5-8 mm tall; involucral bracts lanceolate, sometimes purplish-tipped, glabrous to sparsely long-hairy, margins translucent; bracteoles few, inconspicuous, purplish-tipped; ray flowers yellow, mostly 6-10 mm long; disk flowers yellow.
Fruits:
Achenes oblong, glabrous; pappus of white hairlike bristles.
Ecology
Ecological Framework for Packera pseudaurea
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
The table below shows the species-specific information calculated from
original data (BEC database) provided by the BC Ministry of Forests and Range.
(Updated August, 2013)
| Site Information |
Value / Class |
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Avg |
Min |
Max |
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| Elevation
(metres) |
1398 | 405 | 2525 |
| Slope
Gradient (%) |
11 | 0 | 100 |
|
Aspect (degrees) |
182 | 0 | 360 |
| Soil
Moisture Regime (SMR) [0 - very xeric; 4 - mesic; 8 - hydric] |
4 | 1 | 8 |
| Modal
Nutrient Regime
Class |
D | ||
| #
of field plots species was recorded in: |
484 | ||
| Modal
BEC Zone Class |
ESSF | ||
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All BEC Zones (# of stations/zone) species was recorded in |
AT(2), BWBS(11), ESSF(156), ICH(55), IDF(82), IMA(2), MH(1), MS(141), PP(5), SBPS(3), SBS(13), SWB(3) | ||
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Source:
Klinkenberg 2013
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