Skye Flora

Groundsel


Senecio vulgaris

 

Senecio vulgaris

Photo © Carl Farmer
23 Sep 2002 Glenbrittle

Common in waste ground, gardens, edges of walls, paving cracks.

Flowerhead diameter c 4-5 mm

Skye ID: No ray-florets (occasionally has short recurved ones)  Outer bracts of involucre black-tipped (see pic below).  Involucre not or hardly broader at base than at top.  Flowerheads unstalked at first, becoming stalked later.

Other features: Fruit has pappus of white hairs to aid wind dispersal.

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  Senecio vulgaris

Photo © Carl Farmer
13 Sep 2002 Dunvegan

 


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