Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Senecio pterophorus
Common name
African Daisy
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
A weed of forest margins, grasslands, pastures, roadsides, disturbed sites, and waste areas. Coast and the eastern edge of the ranges north from the Sydney area.
Notes
Introduced shrub or perennial herb to 1.5 m high, occasionally to 3 m. Stems ribbed longitudinally (the lower parts of the stems developing distinctive toothed 'wings' extending down from the bases of the lance head shaped leaves), cobwebby or finely woolly to more or less hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 5–12 cm long, 3-25 mm wide, upper surface green and rough, lower surface whitish and cobwebby, margins coarsely toothed to entire. Flower heads 12-15 mm in diameter overall, with 8–13 yellow petals, and yellow centres with 40-95 florets. Flower heads broadly bell-shaped below the 'petals', surrounded by 18–22 appressed bracts. Flower heads in several to many-flowered clusters. Flowering: late spring-autumn.
Noxious weed Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senecio~pterophorus (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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