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Ragwort is a food plant for the larvae of Cochylis atricapitana, Phycitodes maritima, and Phycitodes saxicolais. Ragwort is best known as the food of caterpillars of the cinnabar moth Tyria jacobaeae. They absorb alkaloids from the plant and become distasteful to predators, a fact advertised by the black and yellow warning colours.
Packera aurea (formerly Senecio aureus), commonly known as golden ragwort or simply ragwort, is a perennial flower in the family Asteraceae.. It is also known as golden groundsel, squaw weed, life root, golden Senecio, uncum, uncum root, waw weed, false valerian, cough weed, female regulator, cocash weed, ragweed, staggerwort, and St. James wort.
Senecio hydrophilus is a species of flowering plant in the aster family known by the common names water ragwort [1] and alkali-marsh ragwort. It is native to western North America from British Columbia to California to Colorado, where it grows in swampy places such as marshes. It can grow in standing water, including alkaline and salty water.
Senecio squalidus, Oxford ragwort; Senecio viscosus, sticky ragwort; Certain members of the genus Jacobaea (a segregate of Senecio): Jacobaea vulgaris, (common) ragwort or, only in the USA tansy ragwort, a very common wild flower in Europe, widely naturalised elsewhere; Jacobaea aquatica, water ragwort, marsh ragwort; Jacobaea erucifolia, Hoary ...
Jacobaea aquatica or Senecio aquaticus, the water ragwort [1] or marsh ragwort, [2] is a plant of the family Asteraceae.It is a perennial or biennial plant: young plants form a rosette near the ground, eventually producing a taller flowering shoot with many bright yellow flower heads, each with prominent ray florets.
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Ragweed pollen can remain airborne for days and travel great distances, and can even be carried 300–400 miles (500–600 km) out to sea. [12] Ragweeds native to the Americas have been introduced to Europe starting in the nineteenth century and especially during World War I , and have spread rapidly since the 1950s. [ 15 ]
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