Senecio aureus

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Senecio aureus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Senecio aureus, Linn. Golden Ragwort. Fig. 3605. An herbaceous perennial: sts. 1 to several from a root-stock, 1-2 ft. high, glabrous or not infrequently white-tomentulose in the lf .-axils, along the margins of the petioles, and in the infl.: lower lvs. petiolate, undivided and rotund-ovate, somewhat triangular-ovate to oblong-ovate, 1/2- 6 in. long, two-thirds to nearly or quite as broad, crenate to doubly serrate-dentate, usually deeply cordate at the base, green on both surfaces or tinged with purple beneath, glabrous or occasionally slightly tomentulose and soon glabrate; petioles 1/2-10 in. long; st.- lvs. variable, petiolate to sessile and amplexicaul, lyrate to pinnatisect, reduced toward the infl. sometimes to linear entire bracts: infl. a terminal several- to many-headed corymbose cyme; heads 1/3 – 1/2 in. high, radiate; involucre campanulate, calyculate, glabrous or occasionally slightly tomentulose; bracts of the involucre 13-21, linear, acute; ray-fls. 8-12, rays yellow; disk-fls. numerous: achenes glabrous. Lab. to Ga., west to N. D. and Ark. B.B. 3:544.—Frequently grown in American gardens. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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