''Senecio arborescens'' is a flowering plant in the aster family, but the available information about it is mostly conflicting and old. According to the

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, ''S. arborescens'' is a native to and widely occurring in the area ranging from

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to possibly

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John Claudius Loudon John Claudius Loudon (8 April 1783 – 14 December 1843) was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author. He was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, collected for the purpose of ...

says that ''S. arborescens'' is a synonym for ''

Baccharis halimifolia ''Baccharis halimifolia'' is a North American species of shrubs in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Nova Scotia, the eastern and southern United States (from Massachusetts south to Florida and west to Texas and Oklahoma), eastern Mexico (Nu ...

'' and native of the United States from "

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, on the sea coast" in his 1842 catalog of trees and shrubs and Raymond Taylor agrees with this in his 1952 catalog of Plants of Colonial Days, which also claims that the plant is native to

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and was introduced to Collinson in England from

John Bartram John Bartram (March 23, 1699 – September 22, 1777) was an American botanist, horticulturist, and explorer, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for most of his career. Swedish botanist and taxonomist Carl Linnaeus said he was the "greatest na ...

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in 1683. And a group of botanists under the discipline of Hieronymum Lentzium seem to have attempted to record the species as a ''

Cacalia The genus ''Cacalia'' L. is a ''nomen rejiciendum'' (rejected name) under the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. Appendix V. Nomina utique rejicienda. E. Spermatophyta The type species ''C. alpina'' L. has been tran ...

'' when they drew a nice image of a completely different plant for their 1737-1745 catalog. It is considered a synonym of ''

Telanthophora grandifolia ''Telanthophora'' is a genus of Mesoamerican plants in the groundsel tribe within the daisy family. ; Species Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by ...

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* arborescens Least concern plants Endemic flora of the United States Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{senecioneae-stub