Packera anonyma(Wood) W.A.Weber & Á.Löve

Small's ragwort

WFO wfo-0000123235 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Packera anonyma, photographed by Bonnie Semmling
fig. a Bonnie Semmling, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-30 / obs. 202350580
Packera anonyma, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. b Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195116240
Packera anonyma, photographed by Michael J. Papay
fig. c Michael J. Papay, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 194418483
Packera anonyma, photographed by Rebecca Gimenez Husted
fig. d Rebecca Gimenez Husted, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190684343
Packera anonyma, photographed by Sawyer Baran
fig. e Sawyer Baran, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190607664
Packera anonyma, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. f Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185287671
Packera anonyma, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. g Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185280701
Packera anonyma, photographed by Yann Kemper
fig. h Yann Kemper, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184968434

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Packera anonyma is native: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia AlabamaArkansasConnecticutFloridaGeorgiaKentuckyLouisianaMarylandMississippiNew YorkNorth CarolinaOhioPennsylvaniaSouth CarolinaTennesseeVirginiaWest Virginia District of Columbia
Native distribution of Packera anonyma, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Alabama ALA NORTHERN AMERICA
Arkansas ARK
Connecticut CNT
District of Columbia WDC
Florida FLA
Georgia GEO
Kentucky KTY
Louisiana LOU
Maryland MRY
Mississippi MSI
New York NWY
North Carolina NCA
Ohio OHI
Pennsylvania PEN
South Carolina SCA
Tennessee TEN
Virginia VRG
West Virginia WVA

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 451 in flower of 584 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Packera anonyma 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. 451 of 584 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 3 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.

Also published as 6 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.

  • Senecio anonymus Alph.Wood
  • Senecio aureus var. angustifolius Britton
  • Senecio earlei Small
  • Senecio smallii Britton ex Small & Vail
  • Senecio smallii Britton
  • Senecio smallii f. smallii

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. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.