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Woolly Grassland Senecio

Senecio coronatus

Also called Woolly Grassveld Ragwort

Woolly Grassland Senecio
Photo: SAplants, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Tanzania to S. Africa
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Senecio coronatus (Thunb.) Harv. aka the woolly grassland senecio is a plant in the family Asteraceae, endemic to and widespread in Southern Africa, occurring in the moister southern and eastern regions.

It is perennial with large, leathery, broadly elliptic, erect leaves growing from a large, underground rootstock with a woolly covering. Up to 20 capitula are arranged in a terminal cluster, each with some 10 slender yellow ray florets.

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 coronatus 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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