Taxon: Senecio vulgaris L.

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Common names:

• common fireweed   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• common groundsel   (Source: Glea Cron ed2 ) – English
  
• groundsel   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• morrar   (Source: F Egypt ) – Arabic
  
• sénecon vulgaire   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• gewöhnliches Greiskraut   (Source: Zander Ency ) – German
  
• cardo-morto   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• korsört   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

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View toxicology references for Senecio vulgaris from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen [s.], Yakutia-Sakha
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kurile Islands, Primorye, Sakhalin
  China: China - Guizhou, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan
  Eastern Asia: Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Assam, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Faroe Islands; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Slovakia; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro; Romania; Serbia; Slovenia
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea; Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Tanzania; Uganda
  South Tropical Africa: Mozambique; Zambia
  Southern Africa: Lesotho; South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Yemen
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu; Taiwan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Poland
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Canada
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Bermuda; Cuba; Hispaniola; Jamaica
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Chile; Uruguay

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Boulos, L. & M. N. El-Hadidi. 1984. The weeds of Egypt.
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Britton, N. L. et al., eds. ser. 1; C. T. Rogerson, ed. ser. 2. 1978. North American flora ser. 1, 1905-1957; ser. 2, 1954-1972 ser. 2, 10:125.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Germishuizen, G. & N. L. Meyer, eds. 2003. Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000)
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Hokche, O. et al. 2008. Nuevo catálogo de la flora vascular de Venezola.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Holm, L. et al. 1997. World weeds: natural histories and distribution.
• Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry. Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER): plant threats to Pacific ecosystems (on-line resource).
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. 2000–. Flora of Siberia (English translation).
• León (J. S. Sauget) & Alain (E. E. Liogier). 1946–1962. Flora de Cuba.; suppl. 1969
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Robinson, D. E. et al. 2003. The biology of Canadian weeds. 123. Senecio vulgaris L. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 83:629–644.
• Scoggan, H. J. 1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
• Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. 1993–. Flora of India.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Wagner, W. L. et al. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai'i.
• Wood, J. R. I. 1997. A handbook of the flora of Yemen.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Senecio vulgaris.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Senecio vulgaris.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Senecio vulgaris.

Check other web resources for Senecio vulgaris L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Euro+Med Plantbase: Information Resource for Euro-Mediterranean Plant Diversity
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University

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