Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Senecio minimus
Common name
A groundsel
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, moist disturbed sites, and near streams and swamps. Widespread.
Notes
Annual herb to 2 m tall. Stems sparsely hairy or to hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, mostly 5-25 cm long, 10-40 mm wide, hairy to hairless or slightly rough, toothed. Mid-stem leaves with pointed basal lobes, usually stem-clasping. Uppermost leaves occasionally linear. Flower heads 4-6.5 mm long, cylindrical, with 12-25 yellow florets, 0 petals, surrounded by 7-10 appressed green bracts. Flower heads in loose clusters of about 100–400 flower heads. Flowers all year.
Hybridisation between Senecio minimus and either subspecies of Senecio glomeratus is likely.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Senecio~minimus (accessed 6 February, 2021)
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