Species · genus Senecio · Asteraceae
Senecio niveoaureus
Senecio niveoaureus Cuatrec.
Cultivars of S. niveoaureus
The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.
No named cultivars catalogued under S. niveoaureus yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.
Guide
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A Colombian Senecio
Senecio niveoaureus is a species in the daisy family, Asteraceae, first described by Cuatrecasas in 1940. It is grown both as an ornamental plant and put to traditional medicinal use in its homeland.
Source: Kew
Native to Colombia
This Senecio's native range is Colombia, where it has a place among locally useful plants. Beyond ornamental value, it has been employed as a medicine for unspecified disorders and is noted for environmental uses as well.
Source: Kew
Genus habit and form
As a member of Senecio, this plant belongs to a genus that spans annuals, biennials, perennials, climbers and shrubs, some of them succulent. Its leaves may be simple or pinnately divided, and its flowers follow the familiar daisy-like pattern of the family, sometimes without ray florets. The trade name 'Silver Feathers' hints at a foliage character in keeping with the genus's more silvery-leaved members.
Source: RHS
Care recipe
The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.
Care notes are early — not yet verified
- Light
- ai:claude-opus-4-8
- Water
- ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d)
- Humidity
- ai:claude-opus-4-8
- Soil
- ai:claude-fable-5
- Care
- ai:claude-fable-5
Bright, indirect
≈ every 14 days
Medium
7–27 °C
Free-draining succulent mix with added grit
Division or cuttings from basal growth
Light feed sparingly in the growing season
Slow
Woolly white-and-gold flower heads on established plants
Toxic to cats & dogs
Senecio (ragwort / groundsel) — pyrrolizidine alkaloids; vomiting, lethargy. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.
Reference images
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PrimarySources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ASPCA
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