Senecio vulgaris, often known by the common names groundsel and old-man-in-the-spring, is a flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is an annual herb, native to the Palaearctic and widely natural
Common Groundsel first fruits
Dew-covered common groundsel flower in New Jersey
Flame shoulder moth or Ochropleura plecta
Cinnabar moth (Tyria jacobaeae) caterpillar feeding on a Senecio
Senecio is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family that includes groundsels and some ragworts. Variously circumscribed taxonomically, the genus Senecio is one of the largest genera of flowerin
Senecio vulgaris
…13 mm) with a highly conspicuous ring of black-tipped bracts are at the base of the inflorescence, as is characteristic of many members of the genus Senecio. A radiate form of S vulgaris is the result of cross-pollination with the closely related Oxford ragwort, Senecio squalidus. The name for the genus…
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Senecio squalidus flowerheads have the yellow ray florets typical of many species
S. barbertonicus Succulent Bush Senecio
Some of the popular succulent species that were formerly included within Senecio, such as Senecio serpens (pictured) and Senecio rowleyanus, are now placed in the genus Curio.