Summary ²

Senecio ampullaceus also known as Texas ragwort, Texas squaw-weed, Texas groundsel, and Texas butterweed is a species of Senecio in the family Asteraceae and gets its Latin name ampullaceus from its flask shaped flower-head and is a recommended native for landscape use in Texas where it came from.

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1. (c) Brent Franklin, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Brent Franklin
2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senecio_ampullaceus

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• iNaturalist NZ taxon page
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• eFloras.org
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