Senecio leucanthemifoliusPoir.

coastal ragwort

WFO wfo-0000082704 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Senecio leucanthemifolius, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. a Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-02-25 / obs. 180696907
Senecio leucanthemifolius, photographed by Thibaud Aronson
fig. b Thibaud Aronson, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 159792500
Senecio leucanthemifolius, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. c Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 114262842
Senecio leucanthemifolius, photographed by Aissa Djamel Filali
fig. d Aissa Djamel Filali, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 25528792
Senecio leucanthemifolius, photographed by Marcelo Cabrera
fig. e Marcelo Cabrera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173072516
Senecio leucanthemifolius, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. f Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179108568
Senecio leucanthemifolius, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. g Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140204718
Senecio leucanthemifolius, photographed by Karim Haddad
fig. h Karim Haddad, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 111867477

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Native range 51 botanical countries

Regions where Senecio leucanthemifolius is native: Algeria, Canary Is., Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Netherlands, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqKazakhstanLebanon-SyriaNorth CaucasusPalestineTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanAlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCorseCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyKritiKrymNetherlandsNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandPortugalRomaniaSiciliaSouth European RussiaSwedenSwitzerlandTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine Canary Is.BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Senecio leucanthemifolius, 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
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baleares BAL
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Corse COR
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
Netherlands NET
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Portugal POR
Romania ROM
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
South European Russia RUS
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Cyprus CYP ASIA-TEMPERATE
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
North Caucasus NCS
Palestine PAL
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Canary Is. CNY
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

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 1,024 in flower of 1,102 examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Senecio leucanthemifolius 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. 1,024 of 1,102 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 48 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.

  • Doronicum arnottii DC.
  • Senecio apulus Ten.
  • Senecio atlanticus Boiss. & Reut.
  • Senecio candolleanus Sosn.
  • Senecio caroli-malyi Horvatić
  • Senecio crassifolius Willd.
  • Senecio crassifolius subsp. crassifolius
  • Senecio crassifolius subsp. marmorae (Moris) Nyman
  • Senecio crassifolius var. crassifolius
  • Senecio crassifolius var. falcifolius Bolle
  • Senecio crassifolius var. giganteus Caball.
  • Senecio crassifolius var. latisectus Pau & Font Quer
  • Senecio cyrenaicus (E.A.Durand & Barratte) Pamp.
  • Senecio euxinus Minderova
  • Senecio gallicus subsp. mauritanicus (Pomel) Maire
  • Senecio gallicus var. lanigerus (Batt.) Maire
  • Senecio gallicus var. mauritanicus (Pomel) Pau
  • Senecio glacialis Marcow.
  • Senecio humilis Desf.
  • Senecio humilis var. humilis
  • Senecio humilis var. mauritii Sennen
  • Senecio incrassatus Guss.
  • Senecio kebdanicus Maire & Sennen
  • Senecio leucanthemifolius subsp. poiretianus Maire

and 24 more.

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.

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