DIVERSITY OF LIFE

TOMPKINS COUNTY FLORA

Packera aurea (L.) A.& D. Löve	Mitchell NY NYFA TC USDA NY no accepted accepted

Golden Ragwort
Asteraceae

CAYUGA FLORA (1926) NOTES: Springy and boggy calcareous meadows, rarely on wet rocks ; frequent. May 15- June. Headwaters of Cayuga Inlet ; Spencer ; Larch Meadow ; Six Mile Creek ; Fall Creek ; Mud Creek, Freeville ; McLean Bogs ; Westbury Bog ; and elsewhere. The species occurs on wet rocks at Beebe Lake and Six Mile Creek. Newf. to Wis., southw. to Fla., Mo., and Tex. ; frequent along the coast. Though all of the above-named stations are in marly meadows or on limy rocks, the plant is by no means confined to calcareous soil in N. E. and in the coastal regions.

BH SPECIMENS FOR Packera aurea (this list may be incomplete)

south of Ithaca, Larch Meadow, 24 May 1910, anonymous (BH 22350);

Freeville Swamp, 2-3 feet tall, flowers yellow, 29 Jun 1919, Arnold (BH 22349);

Ithaca, 27 May 1918, Bailey (BH 22341);

Town of Dryden, Ellis Hollow, 27 May 1919, Bailey (BH 22342);

Ithaca, Cayuga Heights, cold spring, 18 May 1905, Burnham (BH 22355);

Danby, Michigan Hollow Swamp, moist place, 13 May 1945, Clausen 6557 (BH 22338);

Town of Dryden, on north side of Ellis Hollow Swamp, swale, 28 May 1944, Clausen 6279 (BH 22356);

Ithaca, swamp, 14 Jun 1882, DeForest (BH 22345);

without locality, , Dilger WCD323 (BH 113112);

Town of Dryden, 107 Neimi Road, Five Wells Nature Preserve, Fivewellsania, near North Spring, in the southeast of Five Wells, in wet soils, from a small patch, abundant, 26 May1981, Dilger WCD778 (BH 113433);

Town of Dryden, 107 Neimi Road, Five Wells Nature Preserve, east of North Woods, small clearing, damp, small colony, 27 May 2005, Dilger & Sumner FWNP2130 (BH 113111);

Freeville, swamps, 1 Jun 1876, Dudley (BH 22346);

Ithaca, Cornell University Campus, Cascadilla Woods, 15 May 1878, Dudley (BH 22353);

Ulysses, Taughannock Falls, May 1916, Dunlap (BH 22354);

Dryden, below Varna, along north side of Fall Creek, among elders, in boggy meadow, 24 May 1913, Eames 1331 (BH 22352);

Ithaca, Six Mile Creek, near Green Tree Falls, 29 May 1914, Eames 3311 (BH 22348);

Van Etten, 1 mile northwest of Swartwood, moist ground among grasses at baser of roadside bank, 4 May 1949, Kitazawa 790 (BH 22340);

Ithaca, Enfield Ravine, 22 May 1932, Miller (BH 22339);

Ithaca, Coy Glen, dry oak woods, 19 May 1930, Muenscher 17532 (BH 22351);

Dryden, along Mud Creek, in moist ground, 2 Jul 1913, Palmer 1330 (BH 22347);

Ithaca, Cascadilla Woods, 15 May 1878, Rowlee (BH 66855);

Ithaca, 15 May 1878, Rowlee (BH 22343);

Ithaca, beyond Forest Home, on Fall Creek, Rifle Range, 19 May 1944, Schuster (BH 66857);

Ithaca, Rifle Range, beyond Forest Home, on Fall Creek, 19 May 1944, Schuster (BH 66858);

Ithaca, Rifle Range, beyond Forest Home, on Fall Creek, 19 May 1944, Schuster (BH 66859);

Ithaca, along Fall Creek, beyond Forest Home, Rifle Range, 19 May 1944, Schuster (BH 66860);

Ithaca, beyond Forest Home, on Fall Creek, Rifle Range, 19 May 1944, Schuster (BH 66861);

Dryden, Ellis Hollow, swamp, 26 May 1943, Schuster (BH 66862);

Town of Groton, 2.8 km north of McLean, marly fen near a creek, 14 Jun 1972, Wesley FRW1369 (BH 22357);

Ithaca, in Cascadilla Woods, moist ground, 28 May 1892, Wiegand (BH 22344);

McLean Bogs, Fitzpatrick Fen, on sphagnum hummock with Solidago spp., Osmunda regalis, Iris versicolor, Vaccinium spp., 0.6 m tall, 27 Jun 2019, Dirig & BHSI 209 (BH 230299);

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