BROAD-LEAVED RAGWORT
Senecio sarracenicus
(Formerly: Senecio fluviatilis)
Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae] 
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Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae]
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| Summer, River Eden, nr. Armathwaite, Cumbria | Photo: © Jeremy Roberts |
| A splendid abundance of Broad-leaved Ragwort, occupying its preferred habitat: near water. |
| Summer, River Eden, nr. Armathwaite, Cumbria | Photo: © Jeremy Roberts |
| It has a very little competition from the pinkish-flowered Himalayan Balsam (on the extreme left) |
| Summer, River Eden, nr. Armathwaite, Cumbria | Photo: © Jeremy Roberts |
| It is an erect stoloniferous perennial extending upwards up to 1.5m. The leaves are between 4 and 20cm long and more or less glabrous (without hairs). |
| Summer, River Eden, nr. Armathwaite, Cumbria | Photo: © Jeremy Roberts |
| Summer, River Eden, nr. Armathwaite, Cumbria | Photo: © Jeremy Roberts |
| The inflorescence is multiply-branched near the top. [An unknown interloping leaf at the bottom] |
| Summer, River Eden, nr. Armathwaite, Cumbria | Photo: © Jeremy Roberts |
| Summer, River Eden, nr. Armathwaite, Cumbria | Photo: © Jeremy Roberts |
| The flowers have between 6 to 8 ray florets (mostly 8 it seems to your Author) and are between 15 to 30mm across. The inner bracts have a short blackened triangle at their tips; the outer bracts fewer and shorter, sometimes splayed out a little. The inner disc florets form a small compact raised cluster in the centre and are often yellow-orange. |
| Summer, River Eden, nr. Armathwaite, Cumbria | Photo: © Jeremy Roberts |
| The leaves are broad, hence the name with the teeth often blunt at the tip, sometimes with an in-curved apex as seen on that leaf lower right. |
| Photo: © Alyson Freeman |
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It is an erect stoloniferous perennial extending upwards up to 1.5m. The leaves are between 4 and 20cm long and more or less glabrous (without hairs). The leaves of this specimen suffering from a mould, mildew?
Nearly spent flowers on upper right; spent flowers on left. |
| Photo: © Alyson Freeman |
| The leaves are short-stalked (lower leaves) to stalkless (upper), lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate and with unequal forwardly-directed short teeth (best seen lower right). The flowers yellow with (mostly) between 6 to 8 rays which are 8 to 15mm long (this was taken late in the year when the ray florets have mostly fallen off). The phyllaries are hairy (as are the long peduncles [flower stalks]) form are long-narrow jug. |
| Photo: © Alyson Freeman |
| A single flower which has lost most of its petals. The inner bisexual disc florets can be more clearly seen. |
| The florets here are going to seed. | Photo: © Alyson Freeman |
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| 17th Sept 2019, moist Bond Hurst Woods, Chatburn, Clitheroe. | Photo: © RWD |
| Mostly gone to seed. |
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| 17th Sept 2019, moist Bond Hurst Woods, Chatburn, Clitheroe. | Photo: © RWD |
| The seeds occur singly on individual parachute hairs, the numerous parachutes are clustered into a globe. |
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| 17th Sept 2019, moist Bond Hurst Woods, Chatburn, Clitheroe. | Photo: © RWD |
| The spent flowers in their narrowish sepal cups are now turning into numerous white parachutes slightly poking out of their now even narrower (in relation to their length) sepal cups. |
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| 17th Sept 2019, moist Bond Hurst Woods, Chatburn, Clitheroe. | Photo: © RWD |
| The globed arrangement of several long, narrow, pale-fawn seeds each with its own set of parachute hairs ready to take the seed away on any passing breeze. |
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| 17th Sept 2019, moist Bond Hurst Woods, Chatburn, Clitheroe. | Photo: © RWD |
| The parachutes are simple - sitting directly atop the seed (rather than being atop a white pedestal emerging from the top of each seed). Each individual white hair also looks to be simple (rather than feathered as some other species of Asteraceae are). |
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Not to be semantically confused with : Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) [a plant with similar name in the same family, Asteraceae] Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : For a Ragwort: The broad leaves. It is a neophyte which grows in wettish places such as besides streams, ponds, wet woodlands, marshy places or in fens or swamps.
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 Senecio
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sarracenicus
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 Senecio (Ragworts) |
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Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae]
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