Seasonal Wild Flowers

Silver Ragwort

Senecio cineraria

Asteraceae

June to August

It is scattered throughout the country, but is less common

in the North.

See the BSBI distribution map for Silver Ragwort

It is a neophyte, introduced in the 1630s, and recognised

as a garden escape in the 1890s.

It is naturalised round the coast, especially in the South.

Inland, it is an increasingly common casual, found on

waste ground, roadsides and rubbish tips.

Silver Ragwort is an evergreen, perennial, silvery herb,

growing up to 60cm.

Flowers are up to 2cm, the outer florets yellow and

the inner florets more orange.

Leaves are pinnately-lobed and whitely woolly.

Stems are also silvery, white.

Silver Ragwort on shingle beach, Brighton

Flowers - inner florets closed

Inner florets open

Silvery leaves

Silvery stems