Senecio hispidulusA.Rich.

WFO wfo-0000091276 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Senecio hispidulus, photographed by Lisa Bennett
fig. a Lisa Bennett, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-18 / obs. 200123582
Senecio hispidulus, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. b Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195898556
Senecio hispidulus, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. c Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195582041
Senecio hispidulus, photographed by Jon Sullivan
fig. d Jon Sullivan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195541159
Senecio hispidulus, photographed by Dylan Wishart
fig. e Dylan Wishart, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174782740
Senecio hispidulus, photographed by yatesy
fig. f yatesy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174782873
Senecio hispidulus, photographed by yatesy
fig. g yatesy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172549372
Senecio hispidulus, photographed by yatesy
fig. h yatesy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172443346

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Regions where Senecio hispidulus is native: Chatham Is., New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia New South WalesQueenslandSouth AustraliaTasmaniaVictoriaWestern Australia Chatham Is.
Native distribution of Senecio hispidulus, 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
Chatham Is. CTM AUSTRALASIA
New South Wales NSW
Queensland QLD
South Australia SOA
Tasmania TAS
Victoria VIC
Western Australia WAU

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 296 in flower of 459 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Senecio hispidulus 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. 296 of 459 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 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 1 synonym

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 hispidulus var. hispidulus

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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