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Senecio jacobaea - Flower head - Click to enlarge!

Flower head; Alqueva, Alentejo, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer

Senecio jacobaea - Flower head - Click to enlarge!

Flower head; Telheiro, Monsaraz, Alentejo, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer

Senecio jacobaea - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Alqueva, Alentejo, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer

Senecio jacobaea - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Telheiro, Monsaraz, Alentejo, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer

Senecio jacobaea - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Alqueva, Alentejo, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer

Senecio jacobaea - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Telheiro, Monsaraz, Alentejo, Portugal; 8/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 906
Date of entry: 25.08.2008
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Common ragwort

German: Jakobs-Greiskraut

Mandarin: 新疆千里光 (xin jiang qian li guang)

Portuguese: Erva-de-São-Tiago

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Asterales (229)

        Family: Asteraceae (228)(family description)

          Genus: Senecio (9)

            Epithet: jacobaea L. (1)

jacobaea => used in pre-Linnaeus times for different Senecio (Ragwort) species

Characteristics

Climate: temperate, sub-tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: yellow

External links

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World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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