Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Jacobaea x albescens, Silver Ragwort x Common Ragwort
Photographs: Bantry, Co. Cork

Silver Ragwort x Common Ragwort
Jacobaea maritima x vulgaris (Jacobaea x albescens)
Previously Senecio cineraria x S.jacobaea (Senecio x albescens)
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering summer - autumn. Perennial.

A fertile hybrid with yellow flowers similar to those of Ragwort. The greyish-green leaves can be more or less silvery pubescent. Usually intermediate in appearance between parents but back-crosses occur.

Casual, sometimes persistent on urban walls, pavement cracks, waste ground and on sea cliffs and dunes. The first Irish record was from Killiney Bay, Dublin in 1902.

Jacobaea x albescens, Silver Ragwort x Common Ragwort

Jacobaea x albescens, Silver Ragwort x Common Ragwort
Jacobaea x albescens, Silver Ragwort x Common Ragwort

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