Scopoli's Ragwort (Senecio scopolii)
Description:
Short description of the most important characteristics for Scopoli's ragwort:
The plant has only one (1) terminal capitulum with tubular disc florets and outer ligulate florets. The corolla of both is yellow.
The outer involucral bracts are equal in length or longer than the inner ones, appressed, and densely woolly-hairy.
The leaves are entire, soft, ovate to lanceolate with a sharp or blunt tip, densely grey woolly-hairy, minutely dentate along the margin. Stem leaves are sessile and clasp the stem with auricles. Basal leaves gradually transition into a long petiole.
The entire plant is densely woolly-hairy and appears greyish. Height 20-40 cm.
In habit, it is somewhat similar only to alpine ragwort, which however is not so hairy and has a terminal cymose "inflorescence" with several capitula: 3-5, rarely up to 7, and very very rarely only with one capitulum. It occurs in the Julian Alps, Karawanks, Kamnik-Savinja Alps, and in Primorska.
Description contributed by user Jojoj.
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