Common (vernacular) names applied to California vascular plants
compiled by Elizabeth Painter
up to date as of May 1, 2016
Common names (also referred to as vernacular names) are applied differently at different times and places by different users. This list is compiled from many sources and is intended to be as comprehensive as possible. It is not intended to indicate which common name is correct or preferred. Please send comments about this page to Elizabeth Painter (beth.painter.48@gmail.com).
| Taxon | Senecio vulgaris |
| group | Eudicots |
| Family | Asteraceae |
| Family common name(s) | composite; composita; comp; aster; asterwort; asterworts; sunflower; daisy; dandelion |
| Genus common name(s) | senecio |
| Species common name(s) | common garden groundsel; garden groundsel; garden groundsell common groundsell; common butterweed; old-man-in-the-spring; old-man-in-the-Spring; old man in the spring; old man in the Spring; old-man-of-spring; old man of spring; grimsel; grinsel; watterydrum; groundie-swallow; groundie swallow; chincone; sencion; simson; swichen |
| | | | | Common name(s) generally applied to other taxa or multiple taxa | sticky groundsel, stinking groundsel, wood groundsel are applied to multiple Senecio taxa; common groundsel, groundsel, groundsell, common ragwort, rayless ragwort, ragwort, rag-wort, butterweed, butter-weed, butter weed, Jacobskraut, yellowheads are applied to multiple Asteraceae taxa; birdseed, bird-seed, bird seed, fireweed, fire-weed, fire weed, common fireweed, sky-flower, sky flower, chicken-weed, chickenweed, chicken weed, flea-wort, fleawort, flea wort, pig flower are applied to taxa in multiple families |
| Common name(s), rejected | not recommended (possibly pejorative or derogatory): squaw-weed, squaw weed, squawweed; not recommended: Indian plantain |
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