Common name:
Hoary ragwort
Family:
Scientific name:
Jacobaea erucifolia
Synonym:
Senecio erucifolius
Main flower color:
Range:
England, Wales and southern Scotland
Height:
Up to 150 cm
Habitat:
Grassy places, on neutral and calcareous soils
Flowers:
Dense, flat-topped clusters of up to 60 flowerheads, which have (usually) 13 pale yellow ray florets around a centre of several dozen orange-yellow disc florets. Below are two rows of linear, narrow, black-tipped phyllaries, the lower about half the length of the upper. Phyllaries, pedicels and stems are covered by cottony hairs
Leaves:
Greyish-green, pinnately lobed several times; all lobes are narrow, and pointed. Cottony-hairy, especially underneath
Season:
July to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
