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§1 Plant

Senecio spartioides Torr. & A. Gray

vernacular broom-like ragwort — species · Asteraceae


USDA
SESP3
GBIF
3107552
Rank
species
broom-like ragwort (Senecio spartioides)
Platephotograph · Nick MooreCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb, Subshrub
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Senecio
§2a

Native status, by region

  • L48 Lower 48 States Native
§2b

County-level range

· 100 counties across 10 states/territories
Legend Native · 100 Introduced · 0 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 100 counties across 10 states/territories.

Arizona view state ↗ 9 N
California view state ↗ 4 N
Colorado view state ↗ 31 N
Massachusetts view state ↗ 1 N
Nebraska view state ↗ 1 N
Nevada view state ↗ 6 N
New Mexico view state ↗ 23 N
South Dakota view state ↗ 2 N
Utah view state ↗ 14 N
Wyoming view state ↗ 9 N

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/SESP3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3107552 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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