Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Senecio extensus
Subalpine Fireweed
Asteraceae
Subalpine shrubland, grasslands, and herbfields. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and the ACT.
Perennial herb to 0.6 m high, sprouting annually from a short rhizome. Stems sparsely to moderately appressed cottony hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 5-12 cm long, 5–18 mm wide, rough with minute projections, usually sparsely cobwebby when young, finally hairless or nearly so, undivided or the margins coarsely toothedto deeply lobed with 3–5 triangular or oblong teeth per side; leaf bases becoming mildly auriculate above the mid-stem. Flower heads cylindrical, 5-7 mm long, with 0 petals, surrounded by 11-14 appressed green bracts. Florets about 20-45, scarcely longer than the flower head. Flower heads in clusters of 5-90. Flowering: summer–autumn.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
Rare Vic.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/00e9c45b-5931-4f55-91f6-b4db6f5347ce (accessed 28 January 2021)
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