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Island senecio

Senecio lyonii

Island senecio
Photo: (c) Adam J. Searcy, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
California to Mexico (Baja California Norte)
Climate
subtropical

About

Senecio lyonii is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common name island senecio. This island endemic is known only from Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California and two of the Channel Islands of California, Catalina and San Clemente Islands. It grows in the coastal sage scrub and chaparral of the islands' hills and canyons. It is a shrub or subshrub growing from a woody taproot and reaching top heights well over one meter. The leaves have blades up to 12 centimeters long which are divided deeply into many narrow lobes. The inflorescence is made up of many clusters of flower heads. Each head has narrow phyllaries usually tipped with black, yellow disc florets and a fringe of yellow ray florets each about a centimeter long.

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 lyonii 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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