Biology:Senecio viscosus

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Short description: Species of flowering plant


Senecio viscosus
Senecio viscosus 15-p.bot-sene.visco-04.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Senecio
Species:
S. viscosus
Binomial name
Senecio viscosus

Senecio viscosus is a herbaceous annual plant of the genus Senecio. It is known as the sticky ragwort,[1] sticky groundsel[citation needed] or stinking groundsel.[2]

Description

An annual, growing to 70 cm high and covered with glandular hairs. Very similar to Senecio sylvaticus which does not have glandular hairs. The outer bracts show a brown tip. The ray-florets are ligulate, yellow and at first spreading then rolled back. The leaves are alternate and deeply lobed. Senecio vulgaris (Groundsel) does not have ray florets.[3]

Distribution

Locally common in Britain and Ireland on waste ground.[3][4][5]

References

  1. "Senecio viscosus". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=SEVI2. Retrieved 10 November 2015. 
  2. Wikisource Baynes, T.S.; Smith, W.R., eds (1880). "Groundsel". Encyclopædia Britannica. 11 (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. p. 221. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 Parnell, J. and Curtis, T. 2012. Webb's An Irish Flora. Cork University Press. ISBN:978-185918-478-3
  4. Martin, W.K. 1965. The Concise British Flora in Colour. Ebury Press
  5. Hackney,P. 1992. Stewart & Corry's Flora of the North-east of Ireland. Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast. ISBN:0-85389-446-9

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q3503708 entry