Senecio praecoxDC.

Broomstick Tree

WFO wfo-0000017618 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Senecio praecox, photographed by Diana Fuentes
fig. a Diana Fuentes, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204720618

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Flowering n = 489 observations

Flowering observations of Senecio praecox by month
MonthObservations
Jan17
Feb97
Mar246
Apr102
May15
Jun0
Jul0
Aug2
Sep2
Oct2
Nov1
Dec5

Peak flowering in Mar, from 489 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 3 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.

  • Cineraria praecox Cav.
  • Pittocaulon praecox (Cav.) H.Rob. & Brettell
  • Senecio morelensis Miranda

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.