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Senecio ilicifolius

Senecio ilicifolius
Photo: Paul venter, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Safety
Toxic
Native range
Cape Prov.

About

Senecio ilicifolius is a plant endemic to South Africa and belonging to the family Asteraceae.

It is found in the Eastern and Western Cape growing up to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) tall, and readily identified by its rigid holly-like leaves. Its leaves are clasping, adnate and somewhat decurrent at the base, acute, sharply and coarsely toothed with revolute margins, glabrous and scabrous-dotted above, whitish felted below.

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 ilicifolius 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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