Common name:
Oxford ragwort
Family:
Scientific name:
Senecio squalidus
Main flower color:
Range:
England, Wales and southern Scotland; a naturalised species, originally from Italy
Height:
Up to 50 cm
Habitat:
Disturbed ground, roadsides, railway verges
Flowers:
Flowerheads are up to 25 mm in diameter; oblong yellow ray florets around a cluster of orange-yellow disc florets, subtended by a ring of equal-length green phyllaries, black at the tips. At the base of the involucre are linear bractlets of differing lengths, also black-tipped
Leaves:
Hairless, pinnately divided into narrow, pointed lobes, themselves sometimes partly divided
Season:
May to December
Rarity:
★★★★★
