Species: Common Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea)
Family: Asters (ASTERACEAE or COMPOSITAE)
Category: Flowering Plants
Location: NW
A. Flowering Plants
More extensive information on flowering plants can be found in a separate blog post.
B. Asters (ASTERACEAE or COMPOSITAE)
This is one of the largest worldwide flowering plant families and is well represented in the UK. The name Compositae refers to the clustering of the flowers (called florets) into compact heads, so that an entire cluster represents a single 'flower'. They also have one-seeded fruits called achenes.
C. Common Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea)
This familiar native plant, with its all yellow flowers from June, is poisonous to livestock, but a most valuable food plant for lepidopterans, especially the orange and black striped caterpillars of the Cinnabar Moth, and attractive to bees
Witches and faeries travel on ragwort stalks. Ragwort is astringent, and also makes an emollient poultice for burns, sores, ulcers and inflamed joints.
This plant food is favoured by Red-tailed Bumblebees.
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Common Ragwort
This familiar native plant, with its all yellow flowers from June, is poisonous to livestock.
Common Ragwort
This familiar native plant is a most valuable food plant for the orange and black striped caterpillars of the Cinnabar Moth, and for bees.
Common Ragwort
Witches and faeries travel on ragwort stalks.
Common Ragwort
Ragwort is astringent, and also makes an emollient poultice for burns, sores, ulcers and inflamed joints.
Common Ragwort
This familiar native plant, with its all yellow flowers from June, is a most valuable food plant for butterflies and moths.
Common Ragwort
Statues cannot reach out, so various plants, aided by gusts of wind, reach in to the statues, as here with this example of Common Ragwort in Worthing's Heene Cemetery.
