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Eastern Groundsel

Senecio vernalis

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 662, February 489, March 766, April 1,205, May 1,737, June 1,894, July 2,027, August 1,743, September 1,280, October 955, November 522, December 408.
United States13,688
Alaska13,688
Germany1,299
Ukraine1,195
Russia1,144
Poland750
Czechia539
Hungary499
Austria455
Israel384

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

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

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