Senecio douglasii - Butterweed

Butterweed (Senecio douglasii, syn. Senecio flaccidus var. douglasii) is a gray-leaved, evergreen perennial of California chaparral, coastal sage scrub, and dryland sites, with small yellow daisy flowers and useful for revegetation and bank stabilization. It grows about 1 m tall and wide.¹

Inputs

• Hardiness zone 6¹
• Hardiness zone 7¹
• Hardiness zone 8¹
• Hardiness zone 9¹
• Hardiness zone 10¹
• Full sun¹
• Well drained soil¹

Type

• Herb¹
• Perennial¹
• Evergreen¹

Functions

• Fire resistance²
• Drought-tolerance¹
• Attracting beneficial insects¹
• Soil stabilization¹

Dimension	At maturity
Height (m)	1
Diameter (m)	1

Footnotes

1. Senecio douglasii, Butterweed | Las Pilitas Nursery Native Plant Database ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹ ↩¹² ↩¹³ ↩¹⁴

2. Leaf burn times of California native plants, Las Pilitas Nursery, 2005 propane-torch ignition trial, live-leaf ignition time >60 seconds ↩