NARROW-LEAVED RAGWORT
Senecio inaequidens
Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae] 
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Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae]
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Pappus:  (white, simple) |
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| 26th May 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr Mcr. | Photo: © RWD |
| An early-bird floret amongst many narrow leaves. [Only the school playground is left here (and that too will soon be houses); the school itself has gone, and good riddance too - it was an awful school to have to go to!] |
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| 24th Aug 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| A bushy flower growing to 80cm height. |
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| 29th June 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| In the second year they slumped over after heavy rain with last years old but now dead growth still standing. |
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| 29th June 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Large yellow flowers 10-25mm across. |
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| 23rd June 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Flowers with 10-15 ray-florets. |
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| 8th July 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Ray-florets rounded at end. Disc-florets in a raised button shape. Stems multiply-branched especially near summit of plant. |
| 9th July 2016, unknown place. | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
| It often seems to take a droopy stance when in flower. |
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| 29th June 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| The styles are yellow and noticeably protrude well beyond the tubular florets. There is a single ligule with auricle wrapping part way around the main stem just beneath every the flowering branch. |
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| 18th June 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| As yet un-opened flower buds. Not long narrow leaf immediately underneath some branches. |
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| 23rd July 2016, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr Mcr. | Photo: © RWD |
| There are between 10 to 15 ligules (aka petals) on the flowers. Thirteen in this specimen. |
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| 29th June 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Disc-florets like pin-cushions with protruding styles. |
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| 1st Sept 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| A few rings of dark-tipped bracts surround the flower. One or two ligules on the flower-stalk. |
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| 8th July 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Dark-tipped bracts around sepal. |
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| 8th July 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Ray-florets just elongating before folding outwards. Styles forked into two re-curved parts. |
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| 8th July 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
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| 1st Sept 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Styles yellow and split into two recurving parts. |
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| 23rd July 2016, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr Mcr. | Photo: © RWD |
| The linear leaves. Often a very-small whorl of leaves (the others shorter than the main one) emerge from one place. Older and woodier parts of the stem have turned browny-red. The stems branch. |
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| 6th June 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Leaves linear and narrow, mostly entire and auriculate (stalkless, with small auricles each side of stem). |
| 9th July 2016, unknown place. | Photo: © Bastiaan Brak |
| The plant is sub-glabrous, meaning that it may be hairless, or it may have very short hairs hardly noticeable apart from on the paler parts of the green stems (top leftish). |
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| 18th June 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Bottom left shows an auricle on the ligules just beneath each linear leaf. Other leaves with auricles also shown. |
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| 18th June 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Underside of leaf is greyish. |
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| 1st Sept 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Ligules just underneath branches (but they might be withered leaves?) |
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| 30th July 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
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| 30th July 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| Pappus white. The brown parts are the withering remains of the disc-florets. |
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| 30th July 2014, Birch Road School, Walkden, Gtr M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
| All seeds with 'parachutes' flown the nest. |
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Not to be semantically confused with :
Some similarities to : other Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Features : The features which, together, distinguish this from other Ragworts are: Stems are woody towards the base. Leaves linear, narrow usually entire (without teeth) and auriculate (stalkless, with small auricles each side of stem); greyish on underside. Leaves and narrow, mostly entire. Flowers yellow 10-25mm across with 10-15 ray-florets. It is sub-glabrous (almost hairless or with slight downy hair). A garden-escapee and wool-alien which is being increasingly found growing wild. Spreads by parachuted seeds.
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 Senecio
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inaequidens
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Asteraceae
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 Senecio (Ragworts) |
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Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae]
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