Seasonal Wild Flowers

Common Fleabane

Pulicaria dysenterica

Asteraceae

Fleabane

July to September

It is found throughout the country, except for the far North.

See the BSBI distribution map for Common Fleabane

It grows in damp places – marshes, dune slacks and water

meadows, by streams, ponds, ditches, paths and roads.

Common Fleabane is a native, perennial, rhizomatous,

downy herb, growing up to 1m.

Floweheads are golden yellow and up to 3cm.

Ray florets are bright yellow and disc florets, dark yellow.

Leaves vary from green to grey and are oval to lanceolate.

The upper leaves are wrinkled.

Common Fleabane by a lake

Unopened and opened flowerheads

Ray and disc florets

Downy common fleabane beside a path

Wrinkly upper leaves