Scientific Name

Senecio diaschides D.G. Drury

Synonyms

Senecio cahillii Belcher

Family

Asteraceae (Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Northern Territory)
Compositae (South Australia)

Common Names

erect groundsel, fireweed, shingle fireweed

Origin

Native to eastern Australia (i.e. south-eastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales, the ACT and eastern Victoria).

Naturalised Distribution

Naturalised in south-western Western Australia.

Also naturalised in New Zealand.

Notes

Shingle fireweed (Senecio diaschides) is regarded as an environmental weed in Western Australia, and was ranked as a moderately invasive species in the relatively recent Environmental Weed Strategy of Western Australia. It is an aggressive coloniser of disturbed forests, swamp margins, sandy rises and roadsides between Harvey and Pemberton in the south-western parts of this state.

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