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Senecio pulcher

Senecio pulcher
Photo: (c) Cecilia Pombo Posente, some rights reserved (CC BY), CC BY 4.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Native range
S. Brazil (to São Paulo) to Argentina (Buenos Aires)

About

Senecio pulcher is an ornamental plant native to the wet valleys & slopes and flooded rocky

habitats in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay. Cited in Flora Brasiliensis

How to grow it

Senecio pulcher is grown as an ornamental plant in the United States and Europe;

flowering in late summer; it is known to be hardy in southern New England in protected places with well drained soils, but its beauty can be marred by frost and bad weather.

Where it grows

Senecio pulcher grows at altitudes between 0 feet (0 m) and 2,600 feet (790 m) in Southern Brazil, Uruguay and the southern mountains in Argentina.

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 pulcher 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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