Omnipresent Rustic

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

An amazing plant that can be found anywhere in the world. Lovers of the yellow color Rustic will have to go to the yard for any type of flower garden, and summer residents who have a corner of medicinal herbs will help to replenish their first-aid kit

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In terms of the number of plant species, the genus Senecio is the leader among flowering plants. Its herbaceous representatives even reach the cold lands of the Arctic.

But in sultry and arid Africa, succulent species of the Ragwort grow, themselves storing moisture for future use in their stems and leaves. In Africa, there are also tree-like representatives of the genus - small trees.

On all other continents, along with annual and perennial grasses, the groundwort can be a shrub, semi-shrub, or liana. Such a multifaceted plant!

What do so many plants have in common? Most often, their yellow, purple, purple, red, orange or blue flowers, which, like other plants from the Astera family, have marginal ligulate flowers and a core of tubular flowers, resemble miniature daisies collected in lush apical inflorescences.

Varieties

* Common groundwort (Senecio vulgaris) - a low herbaceous plant (up to 40 cm in height) with a two-year development cycle can be found outside the outskirts, or even in your garden. Its yellow flowers with a long flowering period, stems and leaves are used by people as a means of calming the nervous system. It is only important to observe the dosage, since the plant is poisonous.

* Seaside soil (Senecio maritimus) - attracts with its silvery-gray leaves from pubescence, openwork from strong irregularity, while its yellow inflorescences that bloom in the summer have no decorative value. They decorate seaside rock gardens, growing the plant as an annual or biennial. The height of a succulent plant reaches 50-60 cm. (Otherwise called"

Cineraria seaside »).

* Rustic doronicum (Senecio doronicum) - orange-yellow baskets-inflorescences of perennials from 10 to 60 cm high are frequent participants in rock gardens.

* Gray-haired groundwort (Senecio incanus) - a dwarf plant (5-10 cm high) is distinguished by elongated-ovoid leaves covered with silvery-white hairs, like noble gray hair. Flat and small inflorescences are collected from yellow miniature flowers.

* Thick groundwort (Senecio crassissimus) - a medium-sized plant (up to 60 cm high) is named thick for its rounded flat fleshy leaves, painted not in the standard green color, but in gray-blue, and additionally decorated with a reddish edge. The unusualness of the leaves gives the plant a unique decorative effect.

* Havorts' godson (Senecio haworthii) - has an interesting decor of cylindrical yellow-blue leaves, covered with silvery hairs, and orange-yellow flowers. It grows up to half a meter in height.

* Rooting groundwort (Senecio radicans) is another ornamental succulent species of Ragwort with blue-gray leaves and white inflorescences, rising only 10 cm above the ground, and therefore grown as a ground cover plant.

* Grey's Rustic (Senecio greyi) is an evergreen unpretentious shrub up to 1.5 meters high. Ovate-oblong leaves are silvery gray, pubescent on the underside of the leaf with gray downy hairs. Baskets-inflorescences of yellow flowers bloom in summer.

* Ragwort loose-flowered (Senecio laxifolius) is a vigorous shrub that grows over two meters in height. In summer, brown-green leaves and stems adorn panicle inflorescences, collected from yellow flowers with a purple center.

* Large-flowered rootwort (Senecio grandiflorus) is a herbaceous perennial growing up to 1.5 meters in height. Large inflorescences-shields, yellow with a purple tint, bloom in summer.

We will get to know how to grow a Rustic plant in a summer cottage next time.