Groundsel may increase in stubble-sown crops, as it successfully colonises firm seedbeds. Seeds germinate throughout the whole year and in a good year plants shed seeds by early June which can give ...

Yellow-flowered York groundsel is a hybrid of two other plants that first appeared in the city in the 1970s. It disappeared in the 1990s but scientists planted seeds around the railway station and ...

Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) is a weed found in moderate climates worldwide. It contains dangerous chemicals called pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs). The PAs in groundsel can cause severe liver damage.

This plant is listed on Schedule 9 of the UK Wildlife & Countryside Act as an invasive, non-native species and is banned from sale. See cultivation notes for further details ...

In cattle, 4-8% of their body weight of green plant over the course of a few days can result in acute liver failure 40-80 lbs per day for a 1,000 lb cow Cattle that ingested 0.15% body weight (1.5 lbs ...

The Royal Horticultural Society is the UK’s leading gardening charity. We aim to enrich everyone’s life through plants, and make the UK a greener and more beautiful place.

If you live in USDA Zones 3 through 9 and have a low spot where grass struggles because it’s too wet, try planting golden ...

One lovely shade-tolerant ground cover that will really give you a lift with its early spring blooms is golden groundsel (Packera aurea). And what's even more exceptional is that this plant will ...

He has supplied dozens of rare plants for the garden - including York Groundsel (Senecio eboracensis) - which he managed to resurrect in 2022, after it had been declared globally extinct.

What do botanists do in winter? Do we require a period of dormancy, like many of the plants we study? I decided otherwise and chose to ...