Senecio vulgaris L.
 
FamilyCompositae — APG family: Asteraceae
Common namecommon groundsel
DescriptionStem weak, irregularly branched, from thin root; leaves pinnatifid, with oblong, blunt, irregularly toothed lobes, the upper semiamplexicaule, glabrous or cottony; heads in dense corymbose clusters; involucre cylindrical, glabrous, with linear, acute bracts, the outer black-tipped; ligules lacking; disk flowers yellow; achenes densely hairy; pappus white, long.
EcologyAn introduced weed. Described from Europe.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.