Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Senecio prenanthoides
Common name
Common Fireweed
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and shrubland. Widespread.
Notes
Perennial herb to 0.8 m high. Stems bristly in the lower third, sometimes with a cottony overlay, becoming cobwebby to hairless higher up. Leaves alternating up the stems, 3-22 cm long, 2–20 mm wide, toothed or entire, sometimes lobed with 1 or 2 lobes per side, upper surface sparsely cobwebby and often more or less rough, lower surface more or less cobwebby and often purplish. Uppermost leaves narrow. Flower heads 5-9 mm long, narrowly cylindrical, with 0 petals, surrounded by 8–13 appressed bracts. Florets 15–35, scarcely longer than the flower heads. Flower heads in few to many-flowered clusters, often 20–60 flowered. Flowering: spring–autumn.
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~prenanthoides (accessed 7 February, 2021)
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