page_title: Senecio
section_title: Selected species
hierarchical_section_title: Senecio / Selected species
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Starzec bluszczolistny (Senecio macroglossus), Ogród Botaniczny UMCS w Lublinie
context_page_description: Senecio
  is a genus of the daisy family that includes ragworts and groundsels. The scientific Latin genus name, Senecio, means "old man."
  Variously circumscribed taxonomically, the genus Senecio is one of the largest genera of flowering plants. The traditional circumscription of Senecio is artificial, being polyphyletic, even in its new circumscription which is based on genetic data. Despite the separation of many species into other genera, the genus still contains c. 1,250 species and is one of the largest genera of flowering plants. As no morphological synapomorphies are known to determine which species belong to the genus or not, no exact species number is known. The genus has an almost worldwide distribution and evolved in the mid- to late Miocene.
  Some species produce natural biocides to deter or even kill animals that would eat them.
  Senecio species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species — see list of Lepidoptera that feed on Senecio.
  Pyrrolizidine alkaloids have been found in Senecio nemorensis and in Senecio cannabifolius var. integrilifolius.
context_section_description: Senecio ampullaceus — Texas ragwort, Texas squaw-weed, Texas groundsel, clasping-leaf groundsel
  Senecio angulatus L.f. — creeping groundsel
  Senecio antisanae
  Senecio arborescens’'
  Senecio barbertonicus Klatt — succulent bush senecio
  Senecio battiscombei
  Dendrosenecio battiscombei
  Senecio bigelovii — nodding groundsel
  Senecio bosniacus  G. Beck — Bosnian ragwort
  Senecio brasiliensis (Spreng.) Less. — flor-das-almas
  Cineraria brasiliensis
  Senecio candicans — angel wings
  Senecio cambrensis — Welsh groundsel, Welsh ragwort
  Senecio congestus (R. Br.) DC. — marsh ragwort, clustered marsh ragwort, marsh fleabane
  Cineraria palustris
  Othonna palustris
  Tephroseris palustris
  Senecio crassissimus
  Senecio douglasii — threadleaf groundsel
  Senecio elegans — purple groundsel
  Senecio crassissimus
  Senecio flaccidus Less. — Douglas senecio, threadleaf groundsel, threadleaf ragwort
  Senecio ficoides
  Curio ficoides
  Senecio gallicus Chaix — French groundsel
  Senecio glabellus Poir. — butterweed
  Packera glabella (Poir) C. Jeffrey
  Senecio glaucus L. — Jaffa groundsel
  Senecio haworthii — woolly senecio
  Senecio 'Hippogriff' — dolphin necklace, flying dolphins, dolphin plant
  Curio × peregrinus
  Senecio howeanus
  Senecio inaequidens — South African ragwort
  Senecio iscoensis — Hieron.
  Senecio jacobaea — is a synonym of Jacobaea vulgaris.
  Senecio keniensis
  Dendrosenecio keniensis
  Senecio keniodendron — giant groundsel
  Dendrosenecio keniodendron
  Senecio keniophytum
  Senecio kleinia
  Kleinia neriifolia
  Senecio kleiniiformis — spearhead
  Senecio lamarckianus
  Senecio leucanthemifolius Poir. — coastal ragwort
  Senecio littoralis
  Senecio madagascariensis — Madagascar ragwort
  Senecio macroglossus — Natal ivy, wax ivy
  Senecio mikanioides — Cape ivy, German ivy
  Delairea odorata
  Senecio nivalis Kunth
  Senecio obovatus Muhl. — roundleaf ragwort
  Packera obovata (Muhl. ex Willd.)
  Senecio patagonicus
  Senecio pauciradiatus
  Senecio pulcher
  Senecio radicans — string of bananas
  Curio radicans
  Senecio rowleyanus — string of pearls
  Curio rowleyanus
  Senecio sanmarcosensis
  Senecio scandens — German ivy
  Senecio serpens — blue chalksticks
  Curio repens
  Senecio squalidus — Oxford ragwort
  Senecio trapezuntinus
  Senecio triangularis — arrowleaf groundsel
  Senecio vaginatus
  Senecio vernalis — eastern groundsel
  Senecio viscosus — sticky ragwort
  Senecio vulgaris — common groundsel, old-man-in-the-spring
  Formerly in Senecio 
  Brachyglottis greyi (as S. greyi)
  Florist's Cineraria, Pericallis × hybrida (as S. cruentus)
  Rugelia nudicaulis — Rugels ragwort
caption: Senecio macroglossus (wax ivy)
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