Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Senecio diaschides
Common name
Erect Groundsel
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, rocky areas, near swamps and rivers, and other moist sites. Widespread.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb to 1.5 m high. Stems hairless or sparsely rough hairy near the base. Leaves alternating up the stems, 5-18 cm long, 4–50 mm wide, hairless or nearly so, margins usually with 3–8 triangular lobes per side, irregularly dissected, toothed, or entire, bases with small to moderate auricles on the leaves above the mid-stem. Flower heads cylindrical, 4.5-6.5 mm long, with 0 petals, surrounded by 7–11 appressed green bracts. Florets 8–25, about 2mm longer than the flower head. Flower heads often in 50-200 flowered clusters. Flowering: mainly summer–autumn.
A feature of this species is the precociously developed leafy growth at the bases of the leaves.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senecio~diaschides (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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