Senecio spartioides Torr. & A.Gray

Broom-like ragwort (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Asterales > Asteraceae > Senecio

Characteristics

Subshrubs, 20–120+ cm (taproots forming woody crowns). Herbage usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely, unevenly hairy. Stems usually multiple (branching and arching upward). Leaves evenly distributed (proximal often smaller); sessile or obscurely petiolate; blades narrowly linear to filiform (or parted into linear-filiform lobes), 5–10 cm × 1–6 mm, bases ± linear, ultimate margins entire. Heads 10–20(–60) in compound corymbiform arrays (involucres cylindric or narrowly campanulate, 3–6 mm diam.). Calyculi 0 or of 1–3+ (minute, inconspicuous) bractlets. Phyllaries usually ± 8, sometimes ± 13, (5–)6–9(–10) mm, tips green or minutely black. Ray florets ± 5 (± 13); corolla laminae 8–12 mm. Cypselae usually hirtellous, sometimes glabrous. 2n = 40.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
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Mature height (meter) 0.2 - 1.2
Root system tap-root
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Environment

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Hardiness (USDA) 4-10

Usage

Uses medicinal poison
Edible -
Therapeutic use Antirheumatic (External) (flower), Antirheumatic (External) (leaf), Dermatological Aid (leaf), Gynecological Aid (leaf), Cathartic (root), Gynecological Aid (root), Analgesic (root), Ceremonial Medicine (root), Orthopedic Aid (root), Dermatological Aid (unspecified), Eye Medicine (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
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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

Senecio spartioides unspecified picture

Distribution

Senecio spartioides world distribution map, present in Mexico and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:247669-1
WFO ID wfo-0000032240
COL ID 6YGY7
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Senecio multicapitatus Senecio spartioides Senecio incurvus Senecio multicapitatus Senecio toiyabensis Senecio andersonii Senecio spartioides var. spartioides Senecio serra var. sanctus Senecio spartioides var. granularis Senecio spartioides var. multicapitatus