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Ragweeds are flowering plants in the genus Ambrosia in the aster family, Asteraceae.They are distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, especially North America, [2] where the origin and center of diversity of the genus are in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico. [3]
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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.
Newly hatched larvae feed from the underneath of ragwort leaves within the area of their old eggs. The larvae absorb toxic and bitter tasting alkaloid substances from the food plants, and assimilate them, becoming unpalatable themselves. [2] The bright colours of both the larvae and the moths act as warning signs, so they are seldom eaten by ...
Common ragwort - Jacobaea vulgaris, and some other plants of the genus Jacobaea (once called cankerweed). Rattlewort - rattlebox, Crotalaria sagittalis. Ribwort - Plantago lanceolata. Hen plant. English plantain, the common plantain introduced into the United States from Europe. Rosewort - A plant of the rose family, Rosaceae.
Senecio ampullaceus, Texas ragwort; Senecio cambrensis, Welsh ragwort; 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
Botanophila seneciella, the ragwort seed fly or ragwort seed head fly, is a fly species in the family Anthomyiidae. Larvae feed within seed heads of Jacobaea vulgaris (the tansy ragwort), often destroying all of the developing seeds. [4] It is also found feeding on Senecio vulgaris (the groundsel). These flies originated in France. [5]
Packera is a genus of about 75 species of plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae. [1] Most species are commonly called ragworts or grounsels. Its members were previously included in the genus Senecio (where they were called aureoid senecios by Asa Gray), but were moved to a different genus based on chromosome numbers, a variety of morphological characters, and molecular phylogenetic evidence.