Senecio glaucusL.

WFO wfo-0000026899 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 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 glaucus, photographed by ajott
fig. a ajott, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-02-26 / obs. 114048809
Senecio glaucus, photographed by ajott
fig. b ajott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 115170637
Senecio glaucus, photographed by Golfopolikayak
fig. c Golfopolikayak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 178553152
Senecio glaucus, photographed by ajott
fig. d ajott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112706009
Senecio glaucus, photographed by ajott
fig. e ajott, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 112705984
Senecio glaucus, photographed by Mitch Van Dyke
fig. f Mitch Van Dyke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186824508
Senecio glaucus, photographed by Mitch Van Dyke
fig. g Mitch Van Dyke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186824551
Senecio glaucus, photographed by Mitch Van Dyke
fig. h Mitch Van Dyke, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186824604

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Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Senecio glaucus is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Oman, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Yemen, Pakistan, West Himalaya, Krym, Sicilia, South European Russia AlgeriaChadEgyptLibyaMauritaniaMoroccoNigerTunisiaAfghanistanCyprusGulf StatesIranIraqKazakhstanKirgizstanKuwaitLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusOmanPalestineSaudi ArabiaSinaiTibetTranscaucasusTürkiyeYemenPakistanWest HimalayaKrymSiciliaSouth European Russia Canary Is.
Native distribution of Senecio glaucus, 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
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Cyprus CYP
Gulf States GST
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Kuwait KUW
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Oman OMA
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Sinai SIN
Tibet CHT
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Yemen YEM
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Chad CHA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Niger NGR
Tunisia TUN
Krym KRY EUROPE
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Pakistan PAK ASIA-TROPICAL
West Himalaya WHM

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 74 in flower of 76 examined

Peak flowering in Jan. Each bar is the share of Senecio glaucus 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. 74 of 76 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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 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.

  • Senecio chrysanthemifolius DC.
  • Senecio coronopifolius Desf.
  • Senecio coronopifolius subsp. coronopifolius
  • Senecio coronopifolius var. calyculatus Emb. & Maire
  • Senecio coronopifolius var. coronopifolius
  • Senecio coronopifolius var. subdentatus (Ledeb.) Boiss.
  • Senecio desfontainei Druce
  • Senecio gallicus subsp. coronopifolius (Desf.) Maire
  • Senecio glaucus subsp. hyblaeus Brullo
  • Senecio joppensis Dinsm.
  • Senecio laxiflorus Viv.
  • Senecio noeanus Rupr.
  • Senecio rueppellii Sch.Bip.

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.

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