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The herbaceous Perennial Yellow Top (Senecio magnificus) is from the genus Senecio, that includes groundsels, ragworts and cineraria. Senecio is derived from the Latin name senex (meaning old man), in reference to the white pappus. The Latin magnificus meaning “magnificent”.
A softwood shrub that grows up to 1.5 metres in height and has bright yellow flowers, with a deep yellow centre, they are a short lived perennial that emerge after winter or spring rains. The leaves tend to be fleshy, alternating up the stems, the leaf being flattish, hairless, glaucous (bluish-green), margins are toothed to entire (smooth edges).
They grow in semi arid areas (sandy and clay soils) through New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and the Northern Territory. Found in a variety of areas from alluvial flats, along sandy riverbeds and creeklines, drainage depressions and other disturbed areas.
Common name
Perennial Yellow Top, Tall Yellow-top, Showy Groundsel and Camel Weed.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Charophyta
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Subclass: Magnoliidae
- Superorder: Asteranae
- Order: Asterales
- Family: Asteraceae
- Genus: Senecio
- Species: Senecio magnificus
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