Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Senecio garlandii

Flower cluster and buds. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer A Lyne, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flower clusters and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Woolly Ragwort

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Dry forest, woodland, and rocky outcrops. Western Slopes.

Notes

Shrub or perennial herb to 1.2 m high, many branched. Stems densely white-woolly. Leaves alternating up the stems, 8–15 cm long, 30–90 mm wide, upper surface cobwebby to almost hairless, lower surface woolly, bases with auricles variably developed and mildly stem-clasping, margins toothed. Flower heads with 7–10 yellow ‘petals’ each 3–4 mm long, and yellow centres 2–4 mm in diameter with about 20-30 florets. Flower heads behind the 'petals' broadly bell-shaped, surrounded by 12–14 appressed greenish bracts. Flower heads in 20–80 flowered clusters. Flowers Aug.–Nov.

Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, Vic.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10750 (accessed 8 January 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senecio~garlandii (accessed 8 January 2021)