Senecio lyonii

Island senecio

Family: Asteraceae · Type: shrub · Native

Island senecio is a California native shrub found in the southern Channel Islands on ocean bluffs and open hillsides at elevations below 500 meters. Flowering from February to May, this plant produces yellow ray flowers 8 to 10 millimeters long surrounded by disk flowers in heads with distinctive black-tipped phyllaries. Growing 40 to 150 centimeters tall with several stems emerging from a woody taproot, it develops a sparse cobwebby or glabrous appearance. Its leaves are sessile or short-petioled, 4 to 10 centimeters long, pinnately divided with narrow linear lobes about 1 to 2 millimeters wide. The fruit is densely hairy and 2.5 to 3 millimeters long.

Habitat: Ocean bluffs, open hillsides

Bloom period: Feb-May

Elevation: < 500 m

Bioregions: s ChI

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