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Australian Fireweed

Senecio bipinnatisectus

Also called Commonwealth Weed

Australian Fireweed
Photo: Leon Perrie, CC BY 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
E. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Senecio bipinnatisectus is a species of flowering plant, native to Australia and New Zealand. It is sometimes called Commonwealth weed in Australia, but Australian fireweed in New Zealand.

Where it grows

This plant grows in Queensland and New South Wales in Australia, generally in places with lots of light, as along roads or in clearings. In New Zealand it grows in similar disturbed sites. It was previously considered to have been introduced to New Zealand, but is now believed to have made the passage across the Tasman Sea without human assistance.

Other Senecio plants

Cutleaf burnweed · Yellow Starvation Ragwort · Senecio adenotrichius · Texas ragwort · Creeping groundsel · Senecio antandroi · Senecio antisanae · Senecio antofagastanus · Chaparral ragwort · Senecio apolobambensis · Senecio aquilaris · Senecio argutus

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Senecio bipinnatisectus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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