Packera obovata (Running groundsel)

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Packera obovata (Muhl. ex Willd.) W.A. Weber & Á. Löve

Running groundsel, roundleaf ragwort

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Senecio obovatus Muhl. ex Willd.
Senecio obovatus Muhl. ex Willd. var. elliottii (Torr. & A. Gray) Fernald
Senecio obovatus Muhl. ex Willd. var. rotundus Britton
Senecio rotundus (Britton) Small

6/22/2017 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 15 × 10″ (39 × 26 cm)

5/23/2024 · Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay, Maine

6/22/2017 · Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts · ≈ 15 × 10″ (39 × 26 cm)

Kingdom	Plantae	Plants, but not fungi, lichens, or algae (from Stearn's Botanical Latin)
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta	Vascular plants—plants with a “circulatory system” for delivering water and nutrients
Division	Magnoliophyta	Flowering plants, also known as angiosperms
Class	Magnoliopsida	Dicotyledons—plants with two initial seed leaves
Subclass	Asteridae	A large class that encompasses asters
Order	Asterales	Flowering plants with a central disk flower and surrounding petals, like daisies
Family	Asteraceae	The aster family, which also includes daisies and sunflowers; from the Greek ἀστήρ, “star,” for the star-shaped flowers
Genus	Packera	Named after botanist John G. Packer (1929- ), specialist on the flora of Alberta and on Arctic and alpine flora, instructor in the Department of Botany at the University of Alberta 1958-1988, co-author with Cheryl Bradley of Checklist of the rare vascular plants in Alberta (1984), one of the editors of the English edition of Flora of the Russian Arctic (2000), co-author with his wife of Some Common and Interesting Plants of San Miguel de Allende (Mexico). He also revised E.H. Moss’s Flora of Alberta (1983), worked to protect Mountain Park in the Canadian Rockies from an open-pit coal mine, and is currently contributor and on the editorial committee for Flora of North America
Species	obovata	Inverted ovate, that is, egg-shaped with the broader end uppermost

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Packera obovata description by Thomas H. Kent, not updated.