Packera
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{{Taxobox
| image = Golden Ragwort Senecio aureus Flower 2184px.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''[[Senecio aureus|Packera aurea]]''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asterales]]
| familia = [[Asteraceae]]
| tribus = [[Senecioneae]]
| genus = '''''Packera'''''
| genus_authority = [[Askell Löve|A.]] & [[Doris Benta Maria Löve|D. Löve]]
| type_species = ''[[Senecio aureus|Packera aurea]]'' (L.) A. & D.Löve
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
See text.
| synonyms =
''Senecio'' <small>L.</small><br />
Source: ING,<ref name="ing">{{cite web
| url = http://botany.si.edu/ing/INGsearch.cfm?searchword=Packera
| title = ''Packera''
| accessdate = 2008-05-22
| date = 1976
| format = HTML
| work = Index Nominum Genericorum
| publisher = [[International Association for Plant Taxonomy]]
}}</ref> ITIS<ref name="ITIS">{{cite web
| url = http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=564882
| title = ''Packera'' A. & D. Löve
| accessdate = 2008-04-01
| authorlink = Integrated Taxonomic Information System
| author =Integrated Taxonomic Information System Organization (ITIS)
| date = 1999
| format = HTML
| work = Integrated Taxonomic Information System on-line database
}}</ref>
}}
'''''Packera''''' is a [[genus]] of about 64<ref name="fna">{{cite web | url = http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=123645 | title = Packera | work = Flora of North America}}</ref> species of plants in the composite family, [[Asteraceae]]. Its members were previously included in the genus ''[[Senecio]]'' (where they were called ''aureoid senecios'' by [[Asa Gray]]), but were divided out based on [[chromosome number]]s, a variety of [[Plant morphology|morphological]] characters, and [[molecular phylogeny]].<ref name="fna"/>
==Species==
*''[[Packera anonyma]]'' (Wood) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Small's ragwort
*''[[Packera antennariifolia]]'' (Britt.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- shalebarren ragwort
*''[[Packera aurea]]'' (L.) A.& D. Löve -- golden ragwort
**''Senecio aureus'' L.
*''[[Packera bernardina]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- San Bernardino ragwort
*''[[Packera bolanderi]]'' (Gray) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Bolander's ragwort
*''[[Packera breweri]]'' (Burtt-Davy) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Brewer's ragwort
**''Senecio breweri'' Burtt-Davy
*''[[Packera cana]]'' (Hook.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- woolly groundsel
*''[[Packera cardamine]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- bittercress ragwort
*''[[Packera castoreus]]'' (Welsh) Kartesz, comb. nov. ined. -- Beaver Mountain ragwort
*''[[Packera clevelandii]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Cleveland's ragwort
**''Senecio clevelandii'' Greene
*''[[Packera contermina]]'' (Greenm.) T.M. Barkl., comb. nov. ined.
*''[[Packera crocata]]'' (Rydb.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- saffron ragwort
*''[[Packera cymbalaria]]'' (Pursh) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- dwarf arctic ragwort
*''[[Packera cymbalarioides]]'' (Buek) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- cleftleaf groundsel
*''[[Packera cynthioides]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- White Mountain ragwort
**''Senecio cynthiodes'' Greene
*''[[Packera debilis]]'' (Nutt.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- weak groundsel
*''[[Packera dimorphophylla]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- splitleaf groundsel
*''[[Packera eurycephala]]'' (Torr. & Gray ex Gray) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- widehead groundsel
*''[[Packera fendleri]]'' (Gray) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Fendler's ragwort
*''[[Packera flettii]]'' (Wieg.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Flett's ragwort
*''[[Packera franciscana]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- San Francisco Peaks ragwort
**''Senecio franciscanus'' Greene -- San Francisco Peaks groundsel
*''[[Packera ganderi]]'' (T.M. Barkl. & Beauchamp) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Gander's ragwort
*''[[Packera glabella]]'' (Poir) C. Jeffrey -- butterweed
**''Senecio glabellus'' Poir.
*''[[Packera greenei]]'' (Gray) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- flame ragwort
*''[[Packera hartiana]]'' (Heller) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Hart's ragwort
*''[[Packera hesperia]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- western ragwort
*''[[Packera hyperborealis]]'' (Greenm.) A.& D. Löve -- northern groundsel
*''[[Packera indecora]]'' (Greene) A.& D. Löve -- elegant groundsel
*''[[Packera ionophylla]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Tehachapi ragwort
*''[[Packera layneae]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Layne's ragwort
*''[[Packera macounii]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Siskiyou Mountain ragwort
*''[[Packera malmstenii]]'' (Blake ex Tidestrom) Kartesz, comb. nov. ined -- Podunk ragwort
*''[[Packera millefolia]]'' (Torr. & Gray) T.M. Barkl., comb. nov. ined. -- piedmont ragwort
**''Packera millefolium'' (Torr. & A. Gray) W.A. Weber & A. Löve
**''Senecio millefolium'' Torr. & Gray
*''[[Packera millelobata]]'' (Rydb.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Uinta ragwort
*''[[Packera moresbiensis]]'' (Calder & Roy L. Taylor) J.F. Bain – Cleftleaf ragwort
*''[[Packera multilobata]]'' (Torr. & Gray ex Gray) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- lobeleaf groundsel
**''Senecio multilobatus'' Torr. & Gray ex Gray
*''[[Packera neomexicana]]'' (Gray) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- New Mexico groundsel
*''[[Packera obovata]]'' (Muhl. ex Willd.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- roundleaf ragwort
**''Senecio obovatus'' Muhl. ex Willd.
*''[[Packera ogotorukensis]]'' (Packer) A.& D. Löve -- Ogotoruk Creek ragwort
*''[[Packera pauciflora]]'' (Pursh) A.& D. Löve -- alpine groundsel
*''[[Packera paupercula]]'' (Michx.) A.& D. Löve -- balsam groundsel
*''[[Packera plattensis]]'' (Nutt.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- prairie groundsel
**''Senecio plattensis'' Nutt.
*''[[Packera porteri]]'' (Greene) C. Jeffrey -- Porter's groundsel
*''[[Packera pseudaurea]]'' (Rydb.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- falsegold groundsel
*''[[Packera quaerens]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Mogollon Mountain ragwort
**''Senecio quaerens'' Greene
*''[[Packera quercetorum]]'' (Greene) C. Jeffrey -- Oak Creek ragwort
*''[[Packera sanguisorboides]]'' (Rydb.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- burnet ragwort
*''[[Packera schweinitziana]]'' (Nutt.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Schweinitz's ragwort
**''Senecio schweinitzianus'' Nutt.
*''[[Packera spellenbergii]]'' (T.M. Barkl.) C. Jeffrey -- Carrizo Creek ragwort
*''[[Packera streptanthifolia]]'' (Greene) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- Rocky Mountain groundsel
*''[[Packera subnuda]]'' (DC.) D.K. Trock & T.M. Barkley – Buek's groundsel
*''[[Packera tampicana]]'' (DC.) C. Jeffrey -- Great Plains ragwort
*''[[Packera tomentosa]]'' (Michx.) C. Jeffrey -- woolly ragwort
*''[[Packera tridenticulata]]'' (Rydb.) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- threetooth ragwort
*''[[Packera werneriifolia]]'' (Gray) W.A. Weber & A. Löve -- hoary groundsel
Sources: ITIS,<ref name="ITIS"/> NRCS<ref name="NRCS">{{cite web
| url = http://plants.usda.gov/java/ClassificationServlet?source=display&classid=PACKE
| title = Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Genus ''Packera'' A. Löve & D. Löve
| accessdate = 2008-04-01
| author = Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
| authorlink = Natural Resources Conservation Service
| format = HTML
| work = The PLANTS Database
| publisher = [[United States Department of Agriculture]],
}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Senecioneae]]
{{Senecioneae-stub}}
[[pt:Packera]]