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Wood Ragwort

Senecio ovatus

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 195, February 144, March 226, April 355, May 512, June 559, July 598, August 514, September 377, October 282, November 154, December 120.
United States4,038
Alaska4,037
Austria712
Germany694
Czechia371
France334
Steiermark236
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes216
Italy202
Bayern151

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Medicinal useListed as having medicinal use by a harvested source. This is not medical advice.Kew World Checklist of Useful Plant Species
  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderSunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies · Asterales
FamilySunflowers, Daisies, Asters, and Allies · Asteraceae
Genusgroundsels · Senecio

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Wood Ragwort with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.