Senecio spiraeifolius

Senecio spiraeifolius, the fern-leaved groundsel or fern-leaved wild cineraria, is a tufted, thinly woolly perennial reaching from 30 cm to 60 cm in height.

The species is distributed in the far southwest of the Northern Cape and the west of the Western Cape near Nieuwoudtville, the Bokkeveld Mountains and southwards as far as the Tygerberg.

The plants grow on somewhat moist slopes in clayey soils. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century (Manning and Goldblatt, 1997; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).