Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Senecio macranthus

Flowering stems. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering plant. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A fireweed

Family

Asteraceae

Where found

Forest, rocky sites, and moist gullies. Ranges and eastern edge of the tablelands north from Morton National Park. Coastal north of Wollongong.

Notes

Perennial herb to about 1 m high, largely hairless. Leaves crowded, 4–12 cm long, 1–15 mm wide, tips narrowing gradually, surfaces hairless, margins entire to toothed, occasionally lobed with 1 or 2 triangular lobes per side. Flower heads with  8–13 yellow 'petals', each 10-25 mm long, and yellow centres about 7-10 mm in diameter, with numeous florets. Flower heads below the 'petals' broadly bell-shaped, surrounded by 14–22 appressed bracts. Flower heads few to several at the tops of the stems. Flowering: late winter–spring.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senecio~macranthus (accessed 6 February, 2021)