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Gravel Groundsel

Senecio skirrhodon

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) haymay, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

Photos you add are credited to you, and you keep the copyright.

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 New Zealand.January 70, February 71, March 76, April 564, May 200, June 139, July 109, August 116, September 103, October 172, November 128, December 72.
New Zealand1,820
Canterbury Region833
Auckland Region303
Wellington Region273
Manawatu-Wanganui Region204
Taranaki Region49
Waikato Region44
Northland Region34
Otago Region33
Bay of Plenty Region21

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

Traits

Group and habits

  • Pollinator-associated plantDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with pollinators.Inferred from its group

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