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§1 Plant
Senecio sylvaticus L.
vernacular woodland ragwort — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Senecio
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 69 counties across 10 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 69 counties across 10 states/territories.
California view state ↗ 16 I ▾
Hawaii view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Oregon view state ↗ 18 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Washington view state ↗ 17 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SESY ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3107987 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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