Common name:
Common groundsel
Family:
Scientific name:
Senecio vulgaris
Main flower color:
Range:
All of the British Isles
Height:
Up to 40 cm
Habitat:
Disturbed ground, gardens, fields, roadsides
Flowers:
Dense or somewhat open clusters of small, cylindrical flowerheads with disc florets only, no rays, ringed by hairless, green, equal-length phyllaries, black at the tips. At the base of the involucre are shorter bracts, of differing lengths, also black-tipped
Leaves:
Pinnate, partly divided into blunt lobes, with toothed margins. Hairless or sparsely cottony-hairy. Stalked near the base, clasping above
Season:
January to December
Rarity:
★★★★★
