Senecio flavus (Decne.) Sch.Bip.

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Species

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Characteristics

Annual, 100-400 mm tall, sometimes robust, glabrous. Lower leaves petiolate without auricles, blade mostly 20-40 mm long, ovate-reniform, roughly toothed, upper sessile and cordate-amplexicaul. Flowerheads in loose, ± divaricate corymbs, discoid or obscurely radiate, with few ray florets, erect, scarcely longer than involucre, yellow; involucre narrowly cylindrical, 2-3 mm diam., bracts 10-12, 0.5-0.8 x 7-8 mm, bracteoles 3-5, subulate.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 0.08 - 0.4
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-11

Usage

Uses medicinal
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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 10 - 21
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 23
Germination luminosity light
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Images

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Distribution

Senecio flavus world distribution map, present in Afghanistan, Algeria, Egypt, Spain, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Israel, Morocco, Mauritania, Namibia, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Chad, Tunisia, and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:245138-1
WFO ID wfo-0000113818
COL ID 4WKT8
BDTFX ID 83655
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Senecio brevilimbus Senecio flavus Senecio claviseta Senecio decaisnei Crassocephalum flavum Senecio flavus subsp. flavus