Plants Profile for Senecio jacobaea (stinking willie)

General Information
Symbol:	SEJA
Group:	Dicot
Family:	Asteraceae
Duration:	Perennial
Growth Habit:	Forb/herb
Native Status:	CAN I L48 I SPM I
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	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

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Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 3: 542. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Symbol	Scientific Name
JAVU	Jacobaea vulgaris Gaertn.

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Asterales
Family	Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae – Aster family
Genus	Senecio L. – ragwort
Species	Senecio jacobaea L. – stinking willie

Subordinate Taxa

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Legal Status

Noxious Weed Information
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.
Arizona tansy ragwort Prohibited noxious weed
California tansy ragwort B list (noxious weeds)
Colorado tansy ragwort A list (noxious weeds)
Connecticut tansy ragwort Potentially invasive, banned
Idaho tansy ragwort Noxious weed
Massachusetts tansy ragwort, stinking Willie Prohibited
Montana tansy ragwort Category 2 noxious weed
Oregon tansy ragwort "B" designated weed tansy ragwort Quarantine
Washington tansy ragwort Class B noxious weed tansy ragwort Noxious weed seed and plant quarantine ¹ tansy ragwort Quarantine ¹
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U.S. Weed Information
Senecio jacobaea ragwort tansy ragwort This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
STATE	Assorted authors. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
Cal-IPC	California Invasive Plant Council. 2006. California Invasive Plant Inventory. Cal-IPC Publication 2006-02 (1 February 2007). California Invasive Plant Council. Berkeley, California.
SWSS	Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
WSWS	Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al.. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming.

Wetland Status

Interpreting Wetland Status

Synonyms

JAVU Jacobaea vulgaris Gaertn.

North America
Arid West	FACU
Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain	UPL
Eastern Mountains and Piedmont	UPL
Midwest	FACU
Northcentral & Northeast	UPL
Western Mountains, Valleys, and Coast	FACU