Parasenecio (Asteraceae) CWJ12850

tebakoensis

A valuable addition to the woodland garden, a stoloniferous perennial species with slender dark stems 25-85 cm tall. Forming small colonies in rocky soils in the cool alpine forests, where I collected the seed on the high mountains of Ehime northern Shikoku in the autumn of 2010 with Finlay Colley. With ornamental palmate 5-7 deeply cleft, irregularly incised and toothed leaves to 17 cm wide. Bearing slender terminal panicles of snow-white tubular ray-flowers August-October. Best grown in a cool well drained fertile soil with some moisture retention in either part or full shade. Syn. Cacalia.