Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Senecio extensus
Common name
Subalpine Fireweed
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Subalpine shrubland, grasslands, and herbfields. Kosciuszko National Park, the mountains to the north, and the ACT.
Notes
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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