Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Oxford Ragwort, Senecio squalidus, Buachalán Pheadair
Photographs: Co. Cork

Oxford Ragwort
Senecio squalidus
Buachalán Pheadair
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering: April-December. Annual or short-lived perennial. Introduced.

Clusters of yellow flowers (usually with 13 rays) and black-tipped bracts. The deep green leaves are 1-2 times pinnate with narrow, pointed lobes. A nearly hairless spreading, bushy plant that can become woody at base.

Found on dry waste ground, walls, roadsides and railways. Scattered distribution in Ireland but naturalised in Cork City since 1845

Similar: Ragwort, Jacobaea vulgaris (Senecio jacobaea)

Oxford Ragwort, Senecio squalidus, Buachalán Pheadair

Oxford Ragwort, Senecio squalidus, Buachalán Pheadair
Oxford Ragwort, Senecio squalidus, Buachalán Pheadair

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