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Senecio crassiflorus
Lavender Steps is a low, woolly-silvered dune perennial from coastal South America that sprawls rather than grows upright. It is best grown in full sun with very sharp drainage and little water.
Senecio crassiflorus, in Portuguese: margarida-das-dunas, one of the native South American Senecio and an herbaceous dune dwelling perennial.
Native
Creeping groundsel · Vertical Leaf · Canary Creeper · Threadleaf ragwort · Fireweed groundsel · Natal Ivy · Madagascar ragwort · Curio × peregrinus · Climbing Senecio · Canary Ragwort · Senecio tropaeolifolius · Groundsel
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Senecio crassiflorus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
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.
