Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Senecio angulatus

Flowering stem and seeding stem. Photographer Jackie Miles

Leafy stems. Photographer Jackie Miles

Common name

Climbing Groundsel, Angled Senecio

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Urban bushland, woodland, shrubland, disturbed sites, gardens, roadsides, coastal environs, and stream banks. Coastal. Blue Mountains.

Notes

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)