Plants Profile for Tanacetum vulgare (common tansy)

General Information
Symbol:	TAVU
Group:	Dicot
Family:	Asteraceae
Duration:	Perennial
Growth Habit:	Forb/herb
Native Status:	AK I CAN I HI I L48 I SPM I
Other Common Names:	golden-buttons hierba lombriguera tansy
Data Source and Documentation

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	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

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Brother Alfred Brousseau. Provided by St. Mary's College of California. ©St. Mary's College of California. Usage Requirements.

©Lindsey Koepke. United States, WA, Pierce Co., Ashford, Tahoma Woods. August 6, 2005. Usage Requirements.

©William S. Justice. Provided by Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany. Usage Requirements.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 3: 522. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Symbol	Scientific Name
CHVU3	Chrysanthemum vulgare (L.) Bernh.
TABO4	Tanacetum boreale Fisch. ex DC.
TAVUC	Tanacetum vulgare L. var. crispum DC.

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Asterales
Family	Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae – Aster family
Genus	Tanacetum L. – tansy
Species	Tanacetum vulgare L. – common tansy

Subordinate Taxa

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Legal Status

Noxious Weed Information
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.
Colorado common tansy B list (noxious weeds)
Montana common tansy Category 1 noxious weed
Washington common tansy Class C noxious weed
Wyoming common tansy Noxious weed

U.S. Weed Information
Tanacetum vulgare common tansy garden tansy This plant can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
STATE	Assorted authors. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
SWSS	Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada. CD-ROM. Southern Weed Science Society. Champaign, Illinois.
WSWS	Whitson, T.D. (ed.) et al.. 1996. Weeds of the West. Western Society of Weed Science in cooperation with Cooperative Extension Services, University of Wyoming. Laramie, Wyoming.

Wetland Status

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Top Level Regions
Hawaii	UPL

North America
Alaska	UPL
Arid West	FACU
Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain	UPL
Eastern Mountains and Piedmont	UPL
Great Plains	FACU
Midwest	UPL
Northcentral & Northeast	FACU
Western Mountains, Valleys, and Coast	FACU