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§1 Plant
Senecio vulgaris L.
vernacular old-man-in-the-Spring — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Annual, Biennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Senecio
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Introduced
- CAN Canada Introduced
- GL Greenland Introduced
- HI Hawaii Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 259 counties across 29 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Medium
- Shade
- High
- Moisture use
- Medium
- Fire
- Low
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- None
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- 47 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 120 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–55 in/yr
- pH range
- 5–8.5
- Root depth
- 8 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- coarse, medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Single Crown
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Mature height
- 1.5 ft
- Foliage texture
- Medium
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Moderate
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Fruit colour
- Brown
- Fire resistant
- No
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- Slight
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Early Spring
- Seed abundance
- High
- Seed begins
- Spring
- Seed ends
- Summer
- Spread rate
- Rapid
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 400,000
- Propagation
- seed
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- No Known Source
- Nursery stock
- No
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 259 counties across 29 states/territories.
Alabama view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Alaska view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Florida view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Georgia view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Louisiana view state ↗ 4 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 10 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 33 I ▾
- Alpena 26007
- Baraga 26013
- Barry 26015
- Bay 26017
- Berrien 26021
- Calhoun 26025
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Clare 26035
- Crawford 26039
- Emmet 26047
- Gogebic 26053
- Hillsdale 26059
- Houghton 26061
- Ingham 26065
- Iron 26071
- Isabella 26073
- Kent 26081
- Keweenaw 26083
- Lenawee 26091
- Mackinac 26097
- Macomb 26099
- Marquette 26103
- Montcalm 26117
- Oakland 26125
- Oscoda 26135
- Ottawa 26139
- Saginaw 26145
- Sanilac 26151
- Schoolcraft 26153
- Tuscola 26157
- Washtenaw 26161
- Wayne 26163
Minnesota view state ↗ 7 I ▾
Mississippi view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Montana view state ↗ 21 I ▾
- Carbon 30009
- Flathead 30029
- Gallatin 30031
- Hill 30041
- Jefferson 30043
- Judith Basin 30045
- Lake 30047
- Lewis and Clark 30049
- Liberty 30051
- Lincoln 30053
- Missoula 30063
- Pondera 30073
- Powder River 30075
- Powell 30077
- Ravalli 30081
- Silver Bow 30093
- Sweet Grass 30097
- Teton 30099
- Toole 30101
- Valley 30105
- Wibaux 30109
New Hampshire view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 14 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Cayuga 36011
- Chemung 36015
- Columbia 36021
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Suffolk 36103
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Westchester 36119
North Carolina view state ↗ 13 I ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 27 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bucks 42017
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Franklin 42055
- Huntingdon 42061
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Potter 42105
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Sullivan 42113
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Westmoreland 42129
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I ▾
South Carolina view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 3 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 6 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 14 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/SEVU ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3108983 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
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