Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Senecio macrocarpus
Common name
Large-headed Groundsel
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Woodland, grassland, and sedgeland. Tablelands east and north of the ACT.
Notes
Shrub or herb to about 0.7 m high or sprawling, arising from a perennial rootstock, sparsely to moderately greyish-cobwebby below, becoming hairless above. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–15 cm long, 2–10 mm wide, upper surface sometimes covered with minute bristles as well as cobwebby; lower surface usually more densely cobwebby than the upper surface, margins entire to distantly and minutely toothed, rarely prominently toothed, occasionally lobed with 1 or 2 triangular lobes per side. Flower heads 7–18 mm long, plumply cylindrical, with 50–150 florets, 0 petals, surrounded by 13–33 appressed bracts. Flower heads usually in clusters of about 2–10. Flowers mostly winter–spring.
Vulnerable Australia. Endangered Vic. Listed in the Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act Vic.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/08d8c8b5-5723-4d2b-9d60-5a81c0398a43 (accessed 29 January 2021)
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