| Taxon | Packera clevelandii |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Asteraceae |
| Family common name(s) | composite; composita; comp; aster; asterwort; asterworts; sunflower; daisy; dandelion |
| Genus common name(s) | packera |
| Species common name(s) | Cleveland's ragwort; Cleveland's butterweed; Cleveland's groundsel; Cleveland ragwort; Cleveland butterweed; Cleveland groundsel |
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| Common name(s) specific to synonym; taxon noted in brackets | Red Hills ragwort [Senecio clevelandii var. heterophyllus]; no common name specific to var. clevelandii found |
| Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | serpentine groundsel is applied to multiple Packera taxa; butterweed, butter-weed, butter weed, ragwort, rag-wort, groundsel, groundsell are applied to multiple Asteraceae taxa |
| Common name(s), rejected | not recommended (possibly pejorative or derogatory): squaw-weed, squaw weed, squawweed |
| Notes | Cleveland is a proper name, so upper case preferable; Clevelands is an error |
| Synonymy: The Jepson Manual (1993), FNA, PLANTS, etc | Senecio clevelandii Greene var. clevelandii; Senecio clevelandii Greene var. heterophyllus Hoover |
