SMALL FLEABANE

Pulicaria vulgaris

Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae]

Flowers:

Pappus:

(white, simple, 1 row hairs + outer row of scales)

sex

28th Sept 2013, New Forest, Hampshire.

Photo: © Dawn Nelson

Grows erect to 45cm high. [The small leaves are of another plant, so too the larger leaves in the lower part of the photo]

28th Sept 2013, New Forest, Hampshire.

Photo: © Dawn Nelson

It is an annual plant.

28th Sept 2013, New Forest, Hampshire.

28th Sept 2013, New Forest, Hampshire.

The leaves are sessile (without stalks) and between rounded to cuneate (a triangular taper) at their base. The flowers are almost globular with a central area full of disc florets. There is a single ring of short ray florets on the outside. The flowers themselves are similar in appearance to those of some Bur-marigolds such as Beggarticks. It is hairy.

28th Sept 2013, New Forest, Hampshire.

The ray florets are made from 3 fused flowers (there are three teeth at their ends). Overall, the compound flower is between 0.6 to 1.2cm across.

Not to be semantically confused with : Fleaworts such as Field Fleawort (Tephroseris integrifolia) or Flea Sedge (Carex pulicaris) [plants with similar names belonging to a differing families]

It is a hairy annual which is native and grows in damp places such as the edges of ponds or sandy places which are flooded in winter.

Formerly found widespread in England north to Leicestershire and the Channel Islands it is now a very rare [RRR] and found in Surrey and in South and North Hants.

Pulicaria

vulgaris

⇐ Global Aspect ⇒

Asteraceae

Distribution
family8Daisy & Dandelion family8Asteraceae
BSBI maps

Pulicaria
(Fleabanes)