Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Senecio angulatus
Climbing Groundsel, Angled Senecio
Asteraceae
Urban bushland, woodland, shrubland, disturbed sites, gardens, roadsides, coastal environs, and stream banks. Coastal. Blue Mountains.
Introduced perennial herb to about 10 m high, scrambling or climbing, hairless. Leaves rather fleshy. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3–6 cm long, 10–50 mm wide, usually with 1–3 commonly blunt lobes per side, margins few-toothed or entire. Flower heads with 4–6 yellow ‘petals’ each 6– about 10 mm long and yellow centres with 8–15 florets. Flower heads behind the 'petals' approximately urn-shaped, 5–7 mm long, surrounded by 7–10 appressed green bracts. Flowers in branched clusters mostly 4–8 cm diameter. Flowers May–Jul.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senecio~angulatus (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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