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Alpine Ragwort

Senecio nemorensis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) jorgus, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.

United States	1,976
Alaska	1,976
Russia	974
China	566
Taiwan Province	553
Taiwan	553
Irkutsk Oblast	301
Nantou County	227
Altai Republic	102
Krasnoyarsk Krai	90

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Plants · Plantae
Phylum	Vascular Plants · Tracheophyta
Class	Dicots · Magnoliopsida
Order	Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies · Asterales
Family	Sunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies · Asteraceae
Genus	groundsels · Senecio

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (CC BY 4.0)
How much to rely on each source

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