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Canary creeper

Senecio tamoides

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in South Africa.January 12, February 7, March 14, April 162, May 134, June 61, July 19, August 9, September 26, October 101, November 29, December 16.
South Africa590
KwaZulu-Natal401
Western Cape101
Ecuador59
Pichincha47
Mpumalanga28
Eastern Cape25
Limpopo18
Gauteng16
Colombia15

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderSunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies · Asterales
FamilySunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies · Asteraceae
Genusgroundsels · Senecio

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Canary creeper with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.