Packera aurea(L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve

golden ragwort

WFO wfo-0000006878 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Packera aurea, photographed by Bruce Cook
fig. a Bruce Cook, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-06 / obs. 203960570
Packera aurea, photographed by jyoung2399
fig. b jyoung2399, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204205605
Packera aurea, photographed by Zakqary Roy
fig. c Zakqary Roy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198170163
Packera aurea, photographed by theratgod
fig. d theratgod, CC0 1.0 / obs. 224576580
Packera aurea, photographed by Matt Pelikan
fig. e Matt Pelikan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200519862
Packera aurea, photographed by adam busey
fig. f adam busey, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198372306
Packera aurea, photographed by mefisher
fig. g mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 200719203
Packera aurea, photographed by Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng.
fig. h Mary E. Macaulay, P.Eng., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198127445

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 2,891 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 2,891 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 13 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.

  • Cacalia aurea (L.) MacMill.
  • Cineraria balsamita Lam.
  • Senecio aureus L.
  • Senecio aureus f. aureus
  • Senecio aureus var. aquilonius Fernald
  • Senecio aureus var. ashei Greenm.
  • Senecio aureus var. aurantiacus Farw.
  • Senecio aureus var. gracilis (Pursh) Hook.
  • Senecio aureus var. intercursus Fernald
  • Senecio fastigiatus var. fastigiatus
  • Senecio gracilis Pursh
  • Senecio rotundifolius Stokes
  • Tephroseris aurea (L.) Konechn.

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.

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