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Senecio tamoides
Also called Canary Creeper, Climbing Cineraria
Canary Ragwort is a fast-growing, mostly evergreen climbing perennial from southern Africa, grown for its showy yellow daisy-like flowers in late autumn and winter. Give it well-drained soil, support to climb, and full sun at the growing tips for flowering.
Senecio tamoides, also known as Canary creeper, is a climbing member of the genus Senecio of the family Asteraceae that is native to Southern Africa. It is used as an ornamental plant for its showy yellow, daisy-like flowers in late autumn through to winter. Other names for the plant include golden shower vine, false grapevine, and parlor ivy.
It is a fairly drought-tolerant, fast-growing garden plant that grows in well-drained soil towards a wall or fence, and may need some regular plant food for robust growth and abundant flowering. It needs moderate watering until it becomes established in sun to part shade areas. Its long stems require support to climb, such as on a trellis or a pergola. It can also be allowed to naturally creep through other shrubs or by planting beside a tree, leaving it to ascend by itself. The plant's growing tips should receive full sunshine for the flowers to develop, though the base can tolerate full shade.
Although naturally evergreen, it may be semi-deciduous in places that have frosty winters, where it will die back and recover again in spring. It can be pruned once in a while to maintain its spread in the garden. It can be grown from seed in spring, or from stem cuttings in summer. In Sweden, it is known as Sommarmurgröna ('summer ivy'), a name that is also interchangeably used for Delairea odorata, due to the fact that it grows in summer and dies back to the ground in the cold winter.
It is native to southern Africa where it occurs from coastal Eastern Cape in South Africa to eastern Zimbabwe, as well as in parts of the forests in KwaZulu-Natal and areas along the escarpment, including the bushveld savanna. It grows along evergreen forest margins at altitudes of 300 metres (980 ft) to 1,900 metres (6,200 ft) and in moist gullies. The plant has been introduced to Southeast Brazil, Colombia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mauritius, Queensland and Réunion.
Creeping groundsel · Lavender Steps · Vertical Leaf · Canary Creeper · Threadleaf ragwort · Fireweed groundsel · Natal Ivy · Madagascar ragwort · Curio × peregrinus · Climbing Senecio · Senecio tropaeolifolius · Groundsel
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Senecio tamoides 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.
