Taxon: Packera aurea (L.) Á. Löve & D. Löve

Common names:

• golden ragwort   (Source: F NAmer )
  
• golden squaw-weed   (Source: F NE US as Senecio aureus)
  
• heart-leaf groundsel   (Source: Glea Cron ed2 as Senecio aureus)
  
• liferoot   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 as Senecio aureus)
  
• squaw-weed   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 as Senecio aureus)
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2, as Senecio aureus)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide F NE US, as Senecio aureus)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Packera aurea from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

Native: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec; St. Pierre and Miquelon
  Western Canada: Canada - Manitoba
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
  North-Central U.S.A.: United States - Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia

References:

• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2) [= Senecio aureus].
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2. (Glea Cron ed2) [= Senecio aureus].
• Magee, D. W. & H. E. Ahles. 1999. Flora of the Northeast. A manual of the vascular flora of New England and adjacent New York. (F NE US) [= Senecio aureus].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Packera aurea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Packera aurea. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Senecio aureus L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other databases for Packera aurea (L.) Á. Löve & D. Löve:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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