Asteraceae FAMILY Least Concern

Senecio canescens

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

3/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Cultivation Details

HabitPerennial

Growth—

Senecio canescens is a plant of moderate to high elevations in the tropical latitudes of the Andes.

Propagation

Seed - Cite as: Tropical Plants Database, Ken Fern. tropical.theferns.info. 2026-02-20. <tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Senecio+canescens>

Pollinators

Insects

References

[1]IUCN Red List of Threatened Species — http://www.iucnredlist.org/ ↩︎A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat.
[2]Ethnobotany of the Andes — Bussmann R.W. & Paniagua-Zambrana N.Y. (Editors) · Springer Nature; Switzerland · 2020 · https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28933-1 · ISBN 978-3-030-28932-4 ↩︎
[3]Culcitium canescens Humb. & Bonpl. (Asteraceae): una revisión etnobotánica, etnofarmacológica y fitoquímica — Ramirez J-Kenedy et al · 2020 · http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/era.19.19.1-14 ↩︎