Senecio elegans

Linnaeus

Sp. Pl. 2: 869. 1753.

Introduced
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 20. Treatment on page 567. Mentioned on page 545.

Annuals, 20–40 (–60) cm (taprooted). Herbage (somewhat sticky) hairy or unevenly glabrate. Stems single (often branching distally). Leaves evenly distributed; petiolate (petiole bases ± expanded); blades obovate (lyrate to pinnatifid, lobes linear to ± cruciate), 3–8 × 1.5–3.5 cm, bases contracted or tapered, ultimate margins ± dentate to crenate. Heads 8–20 in corymbiform arrays. Calyculi of 8–14 ± ovate bractlets (lengths to 1/2 phyllaries). Phyllaries ± 13+, 6–10 mm, tips black. Ray-florets ± 13; corolla laminae (deep red to purple) 10–15 mm. Cypselae usually hairy. 2n = 20.


Phenology: Flowering mostly spring–summer (sparingly at other times).
Habitat: Disturbed coastal sites
Elevation: 0–100 m

Distribution

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Introduced; Calif., Africa

Discussion

Senecio elegans escapes from cultivation and persists along the central coast of California. Native to South Africa, it is now established widely in areas of Mediterranean climate.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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not tailed +, rounded +  and obtuse +
papillate +
truncate-penicillate +
scarious +
usually ovate +  and lance-linear +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
Theodore M. Barkley† +
Linnaeus +
tapered +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
obovate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
winged;nerved;ribbed +
barbellulate +  and smooth +
white +  and stramineous +
purplish +, reddish +, white +, ochroleucous +, yellow +  and white rarely reddish +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
angled +, 5-ribbed +, prismatic +  and cylindric +
fertile +  and bisexual +
fertile +  and bisexual +
Calif. +  and Africa +
0–100 m +
hairy +  and glabrous +
pistillate +, staminate +  and neuter +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Disturbed coastal sites +
discoid +  and radiate +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +  and homogamous +
glabrate +  and hairy +
each +  and sessile +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
turbinate;campanulate +
distributed +
cauline +  and basal +
erect;recurved +
deltate +
dentate to pinnatifid +  and entire +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
Flowering mostly spring–summer (sparingly at other times). +
mostly oblong +  and lanceolate or linear +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
bearing subulate enations +, hairy +  and bristly +
flat;convex +
exalbuminous +
Introduced +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Compositae +
Senecio elegans +
species +
campanulate +
less dentate +  and crenate +
40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br /> (60 cm600 mm <br />0.6 m <br />) +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br /> (250 cm2,500 mm <br />2.5 m <br />) +
shrub +  and subshrub +