Hemp leaf ragwort

Senecio brasiliensis var. tripartitus

Found in disturbed areas (on ballast); rare (not collected since 1894, Pensacola, Escambia County, FL). FloraQuest, phone app (app page) What its natural habitat tells you

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Not native

Not native to Florida. How scores work Is it native here?

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At a glance

Not yet recorded · Height · Spread · Light · Soil · Life cycle · Leaves · Bloom

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Recorded in 2 Florida counties.

Ecological relationships

Who uses this plant?

What these records mean

20CaterpillarsGenus host records with ranges including FL

Genus host records with ranges including FL · Senecio

Apantesis naisNais Tiger Moth
Autoplusia egenaBean-Leaf Skeletonizer Moth
Emmelina monodactylaMorning-Glory Plume Moth
Estigmene acreaSalt Marsh Moth, Acrea Moth
Hellinsia kellicottiiGoldenrod Borer Plume Moth
Homoeosoma electellaSunflower Moth
Lioptilodes albistriolatusMousy Plume Moth
Orthonama obstipataThe Gem
Palthis asopialisFaint-Spotted Palthis
Ponometia exiguaBicolored Bird-Dropping Moth

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Spodoptera frugiperdaFall Armyworm Moth
Synchlora frondariaSouthern Emerald
Trichoplusia niNi Moth, Cabbage Looper Moth
Vanessa carduiPainted Lady, Cosmopolite
Vanessa virginiensisAmerican Lady, American Painted Lady
Xestia dolosaGreater Black-Letter Dart, Greater Spotted Cutworm
Adaina bipunctatus
Hellinsia lacteodactylus
Phyllocnistis insignis
Platphalonidia felix

Shropshire & Tallamy 2025, Lepidoptera of North America north of Mexico, ZooKeys 1261 (ODbL)

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4Specialist beesPollen specialists

Pollen specialists · Senecio

Andrena gardineri
Andrena senticulosa
Osmia coloradensis
Perdita octomaculata

Smith, Bachelder, Russell, Morales, Mosher & Seltmann 2024, Bee-Specialization-Modeling v0.6.1 (specialist host table compiled from J. Fowler's pollen specialist bee lists), Zenodo, CC BY 4.0

4BirdsRecorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim

Recorded genus food-resource interactions; not a state feeding claim · Senecio

Haemorhous mexicanusHouse Finch
Spinus psaltriaLesser Goldfinch
Spinus tristisAmerican Goldfinch
Tympanuchus pallidicinctusLesser Prairie-Chicken

Hurlbert, Olsen, Sawyer & Winner 2021, Avian Diet Database, Scientific Data 8: 260 (CC0)

Direct food only: birds recorded eating this genus across North America. Caterpillars on host plants also feed nesting birds. NC Native Plant Society: butterfly gardening

Growing and identification

Plant details

Family: Asteraceae

Safety has not been reviewed for this plant; check toxicity and thorns before planting.

Conservation status

Florida rank	SNA
Global rank	Not available
FL status	Not verified
Federal status	Not verified

Conservation source

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