Jacobaea paludosa(L.) G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.

WFO wfo-0000008321 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Jacobaea paludosa, photographed by Jason Grant
fig. a Jason Grant, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-06 / obs. 134375265

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Smithsonian, US National Herbarium
Accession
US 481361
Filed as
Jacobaea paludosa subsp. lanata (Holub) B.Nord.
Det. by
not recorded on this sheet
Collected
A. Becker
Origin
RU
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC0 1.0)

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Native range 24 botanical countries

Regions where Jacobaea paludosa is native: Kazakhstan, West Siberia, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine KazakhstanWest SiberiaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNetherlandsNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Jacobaea paludosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Netherlands NET
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Kazakhstan KAZ ASIA-TEMPERATE
West Siberia WSB

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 61 in flower of 65 examined

Proportion of examined Jacobaea paludosa in flower, by month
Month In flower Examined Share 95% interval
Jan 0 0 too few examined
Feb 0 0 too few examined
Mar 0 0 too few examined
Apr 0 0 too few examined
May 3 3 too few examined
Jun 14 14 100% 78% to 100%
Jul 24 25 96% 80% to 99%
Aug 18 21 86% 65% to 95%
Sep 2 2 too few examined
Oct 0 0 too few examined
Nov 0 0 too few examined
Dec 0 0 too few examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Jacobaea paludosa observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 61 of 65 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Where it actually grows measured, from 416 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -19.5 °C -5.3 °C 0.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 21.2 °C 23.2 °C 26.5 °C
Annual rainfall 566 mm 705 mm 1,605 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 89 mm 125 mm 302 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 416 research-grade observations of Jacobaea paludosa that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one. Climate from CHELSA V2.1 (Karger et al. 2017); occurrences from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 14 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cineraria aurea L.
  • Cineraria serratifolia Gray
  • Doria paludosa Fourr.
  • Senecio auratus DC.
  • Senecio bohemicus Tausch
  • Senecio paludosus L.
  • Senecio paludosus f. paludosus
  • Senecio paludosus subsp. bohemicus (Tausch) Čelak.
  • Senecio paludosus subsp. paludosus
  • Senecio paludosus subsp. tomentosus Čelak.
  • Senecio paludosus var. paludosus
  • Senecio riparius Wallr.
  • Senecio sadleri Sadler
  • Senecio tataricus Less.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.