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Senecio sylvaticus

Senecio sylvaticus.<br>Photographer: Nicholas J. D. Singers, Licence: All rights reserved.

Habit, Macraes, Otago.<br>Photographer: Mike Thorsen, Date taken: 09/02/2017, Licence: All rights reserved. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

wood groundsel

Biostatus

Exotic

Structural class

Herbs - Dicotyledonous composites

Flower colours

Yellow

Conservation status

Not applicable

Detailed taxonomy

Family

Asteraceae

Authority

Senecio sylvaticus L.

Ecology

Year naturalised

1878

Origin

Europe

Other information

Etymology

senecio: From the Latin senex ‘old man’ (probably referring to the bearded seeds)

sylvaticus: From the Latin sylva ‘forest’, meaning growing in the forest

NVS code

The National Vegetation Survey (NVS) Databank is a physical archive and electronic databank containing records of over 94,000 vegetation survey plots - including data from over 19,000 permanent plots. NVS maintains a standard set of species code abbreviations that correspond to standard scientific plant names from the Ngä Tipu o Aotearoa - New Zealand Plants database.

SENSYL

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