Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae] |
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Pappus: (white, simple, 1 row long hairs + 1 row short scales) |
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unknown date, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
A tall plant growing up to a metre. |
29th Aug 2014, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
The flowers are a medium 10-20mm across when fully opened up with white ray florets (ligules) being 4 to 10mm long. |
29th Aug 2014, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
Flower branches concentrated near the summit. Ray florets pinkish when unopened. There is a colour form with purplish-blue ray florets. |
29th Aug 2014, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
The disc florets are yellow and are form a concentrated circle about as wide across as the ray florets are long. |
29th Aug 2014, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
Leaves are stalkless and attach broadly directly to the stems but without clasping the stem. |
29th Aug 2014, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
29th Aug 2014, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
29th Aug 2014, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
Flower buds shaped like crown-green bowling bowls: oblate spheroids. |
29th Aug 2014, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
29th Aug 2014, unknown place | Photo: © RWD |
unknown date, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
unknown date, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
unknown date, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
The leaves of Tall Fleabane are stalkless and attach broadly directly to the stems but are not supposed to clasp the stem! (as they do here) |
unknown date, unknown place | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
The stem leaves of Tall Fleabane are lanceolate to oblanceolate and only sparsely hairy, but are not supposed to clasp the stem! (as they do here). Stems round to ribbed, sometimes square.
A very similar plant, |
Easily mistaken for :
In addition, It has been confirmed by Mike Crewe that these are of Tall Fleabane (and not of Robin's Plantain). Tall Fleabane grows in waste places or rough ground on usually sandy soils and occurs mainly in Southern England but can also be found sporadically from Moray down south to Southern England.
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Erigeron | annuus | ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ | Asteraceae |
Erigeron (Fleabanes) |
Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae] |