English > genus Senecio: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | enormous and diverse cosmopolitan genus of trees and shrubs and vines and herbs including many weeds. |
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| Synonym | Senecio |
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| Member of | Compositae, family Compositae, Asteraceae, family Asteraceae, aster family | plants with heads composed of many florets |
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| Members | butterweed, ragwort, Senecio glabellus | American ragwort with yellow flowers |
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| dusty miller, Senecio cineraria, Cineraria maritima | Stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region having very white woolly stems and leaves |
| groundsel, Senecio vulgaris | Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers |
| nodding groundsel, Senecio bigelovii | plant with erect leafy stems bearing clusters of rayless yellow flower heads on bent individual stalks |
| ragwort, tansy ragwort, ragweed, benweed, Senecio jacobaea | widespread European weed having yellow daisylike flowers |
| threadleaf groundsel, Senecio doublasii | bluish-green bushy leafy plant covered with close white wool and bearing branched clusters of yellow flower heads |
| Broader | asterid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
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| Spanish | genus senecio, senecio |
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| Catalan | genus senecio, senecio |
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