Gateshead Birders

Flora

Sticky Groundsel


Senecio viscosus

Other names: Stinking Groundsel

Photo © Keith Robson
19 July 2009 Birtley railway sidings, Durham, UK

Identification: Flowers with a yellow disk, but rays extremely small, appearing absent. Flowers arranged in an irreguarly flat, apical cluster. Stem and leaves covered with sticky, smelly hairs. Both basal and medial leaves strongly and irregularly lobes. Plant 1 to 2 feet in height.

Flowering period: July to September.

 

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