Senecio flavus(Decne.) Sch.Bip.

WFO wfo-0000113818 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Senecio flavus, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. a Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-04-01 / obs. 63775071
Senecio flavus, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. b Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 61892800
Senecio flavus, photographed by Peter Gabler
fig. c Peter Gabler, CC0 1.0 / obs. 61786683
Senecio flavus, photographed by Peter Gabler
fig. d Peter Gabler, CC0 1.0 / obs. 61445152
Senecio flavus, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. e Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 103024366
Senecio flavus, photographed by Fabien Anthelme
fig. f Fabien Anthelme, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 103024408
Senecio flavus, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. g Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63775092
Senecio flavus, photographed by Olivier Argagnon
fig. h Olivier Argagnon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 63775096

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Senecio flavus is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Chad, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Namibia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Iran, Palestine, Sinai, Pakistan, Spain AlgeriaChadEgyptMauritaniaMoroccoNamibiaSudan-South SudanTunisiaAfghanistanIranPalestineSinaiPakistanSpain Canary Is.
Native distribution of Senecio flavus, 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
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Chad CHA
Egypt EGY
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Namibia NAM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tunisia TUN
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL
Spain SPA EUROPE

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.

Also published as 5 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.

  • Crassocephalum flavum Decne.
  • Senecio brevilimbus S.Moore
  • Senecio claviseta Pomel
  • Senecio decaisnei DC.
  • Senecio flavus subsp. flavus

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.