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Woolly Ragwort

Senecio garlandii

Woolly Ragwort
Photo: B 897, CC BY-SA 4.0

Woolly Ragwort (Senecio garlandii) is a native Australian perennial shrub in the daisy family, grown mainly for its woolly foliage and clusters of small flowers. It is a species, not a genus, and it is grown only sparingly outside its native range.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water during establishment, then allow the soil to dry between waterings; it tolerates dry conditions.
Soil
Well-drained, sandy or rocky soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
10–30 °C; tolerates light frost, protect from hard freezes.
How easy
Easy
Native range
SC. New South Wales to N. Victoria
Climate
temperate

About

Senecio garlandii, commonly known as woolly ragwort, is a species of daisy native to southern New South Wales and north-eastern Victoria.

Where it grows

The species occurs in dry schlerophyll forests and open woodlands, on the sheltered south and east facing slopes of rocky outcrops between Wyalong, NSW to Chiltern, Victoria. The species is capable of regenerating in both the absence and presence of fire, however fire facilitates

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 garlandii 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.

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