Aww, two teeny pollinators on flowers! Might be the New Mexico groundsel?
April 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Aww, two teeny pollinators on flowers! Might be the New Mexico groundsel?
Dandelion, Common Field Speedwell (flowers and fruit) and Groundsel. Growing beside the road in Plumpton Green #wildflowerhour
January 18, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Dandelion, Common Field Speedwell (flowers and fruit) and Groundsel. Growing beside the road in Plumpton Green #wildflowerhour
Some Groundsel was also flowering #WildflowerHour
December 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Some Groundsel was also flowering #WildflowerHour
#Wildflowerhour locally yesterday in #Preston #Lancashire, germander speedwell &black medic, ragwort, redshank, red dead nettle, common groundsel, sloe fruit & ramping fumitory. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #vitaminN
September 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
#Wildflowerhour locally yesterday in #Preston #Lancashire, germander speedwell &black medic, ragwort, redshank, red dead nettle, common groundsel, sloe fruit & ramping fumitory. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #vitaminN
Sea-milkwort Lysimachia maritima and Heath Groundsel Senecio sylvaticus. West Sussex, yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
June 16, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Sea-milkwort Lysimachia maritima and Heath Groundsel Senecio sylvaticus. West Sussex, yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
🚶♀️🚶🏻♂️New Road - #DownhamMarket, #Norfolk
Unusually high hedges providing some shelter in this lane.
But buffeted by strong winds earlier in the week.
Cranesbill
Groundsel?
#WildflowerHour
Unusually high hedges providing some shelter in this lane.
But buffeted by strong winds earlier in the week.
Cranesbill
Groundsel?
#WildflowerHour
December 28, 2025 at 8:17 PM
🚶♀️🚶🏻♂️New Road - #DownhamMarket, #Norfolk
Unusually high hedges providing some shelter in this lane.
But buffeted by strong winds earlier in the week.
Cranesbill
Groundsel?
#WildflowerHour
Unusually high hedges providing some shelter in this lane.
But buffeted by strong winds earlier in the week.
Cranesbill
Groundsel?
#WildflowerHour
You know #TheWinter10 has kicked in when you’re including Groundsel. Dandelion, Wild clary, Red dead nettle, Groundsel, Hairy bittercress, Daisy, Shepherd’s purse, Yarrow, Black horehound, Shepherd’s purse again, Smooth sowthistle. West Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
You know #TheWinter10 has kicked in when you’re including Groundsel. Dandelion, Wild clary, Red dead nettle, Groundsel, Hairy bittercress, Daisy, Shepherd’s purse, Yarrow, Black horehound, Shepherd’s purse again, Smooth sowthistle. West Cambridge. #WildflowerHour
This bed is also doing well. The spineless prickly pear basically quadrupled in size this year, and the yucca next to the wall is almost up to my waist.
September 27, 2026 at 11:24 PM
This bed is also doing well. The spineless prickly pear basically quadrupled in size this year, and the yucca next to the wall is almost up to my waist.
Sibling species! York Groundsel on the left, Welsh Groundsel on the right. I call them siblings because they evolved through hybrid speciation from the same parent species; Groundsel and Oxford Ragwort.
Both arose as brand new endemic species recently, probably in the last century and a half.
Both arose as brand new endemic species recently, probably in the last century and a half.
September 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Sibling species! York Groundsel on the left, Welsh Groundsel on the right. I call them siblings because they evolved through hybrid speciation from the same parent species; Groundsel and Oxford Ragwort.
Both arose as brand new endemic species recently, probably in the last century and a half.
Both arose as brand new endemic species recently, probably in the last century and a half.
Radiate Groundsel Senecio vulgaris var hibernicus around Brighton seafront today #Wildflowerhour
April 6, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Radiate Groundsel Senecio vulgaris var hibernicus around Brighton seafront today #Wildflowerhour
September 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
From the Temenos sculpture, Middlesbrough; possibly Common Ramping Fumitory? And a rayed Groundsel, which is probably the subspecies var.Hibernicus?
#wildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#wildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
April 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
From the Temenos sculpture, Middlesbrough; possibly Common Ramping Fumitory? And a rayed Groundsel, which is probably the subspecies var.Hibernicus?
#wildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#wildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
All the bees to you!
[A honeybee visits the yellow flowers of Eastern groundsel, Senecio vernalis.]
[A honeybee visits the yellow flowers of Eastern groundsel, Senecio vernalis.]
January 27, 2026 at 10:32 AM
All the bees to you!
[A honeybee visits the yellow flowers of Eastern groundsel, Senecio vernalis.]
[A honeybee visits the yellow flowers of Eastern groundsel, Senecio vernalis.]
Most of the Suffolk sand quarry I monitored this week was very brown and crispy, but Common Evening-primrose, Sticky Groundsel (a member of the #DaisyFamily) and Panicled Willowherb were all doing just fine...
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
August 9, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Most of the Suffolk sand quarry I monitored this week was very brown and crispy, but Common Evening-primrose, Sticky Groundsel (a member of the #DaisyFamily) and Panicled Willowherb were all doing just fine...
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
I walked home from Plumpton Station yesterday and found #thewinter10 - Dandelion, Petty Spurge, Winter Heliotrope, Hedge Bedstraw, Fleabane, Daisy, Meadow Buttercup, Meadow Grass, Groundsel and Mexican Fleabane #pavementplants #wildflowerhour
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I walked home from Plumpton Station yesterday and found #thewinter10 - Dandelion, Petty Spurge, Winter Heliotrope, Hedge Bedstraw, Fleabane, Daisy, Meadow Buttercup, Meadow Grass, Groundsel and Mexican Fleabane #pavementplants #wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour michaelmas daisy, groundsel, bristly oxtongue
September 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
#wildflowerhour michaelmas daisy, groundsel, bristly oxtongue
#YellowFlowers challenge, yes please 😁, #WildFlowerHour I give you #dandelions, celandine, primrose, buttercup and groundsel #wildflowers really popping this weekend.
March 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
#YellowFlowers challenge, yes please 😁, #WildFlowerHour I give you #dandelions, celandine, primrose, buttercup and groundsel #wildflowers really popping this weekend.
Groundsel Senecio vulgaris on a Norfolk road verge #Wildflowerhour
January 25, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Groundsel Senecio vulgaris on a Norfolk road verge #Wildflowerhour
Fun science update here: this lovely creature is a new species! I didn't discover a new one, she's just got a new name because it turns out she's different than Perilampus hyalinus. Meet Perilampus seneca 💙💙
December 12, 2024 at 4:05 AM
Fun science update here: this lovely creature is a new species! I didn't discover a new one, she's just got a new name because it turns out she's different than Perilampus hyalinus. Meet Perilampus seneca 💙💙
An Ely #TheWinter10. Winter heliotrope, Shepherd’s purse, Scarlet pimpernel, Bristly oxtongue, Common storksbill, Ragwort, Red dead nettle, Groundsel, Daisy, Blue fleabane and Red valerian. #WildflowerHour
December 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
An Ely #TheWinter10. Winter heliotrope, Shepherd’s purse, Scarlet pimpernel, Bristly oxtongue, Common storksbill, Ragwort, Red dead nettle, Groundsel, Daisy, Blue fleabane and Red valerian. #WildflowerHour
Daisy, Annual mercury, Red dead nettle, Primrose, Nipplewort, Sweet violet, Feverfew, Groundsel, Red dead nettle, White dead nettle and Dandelion. #TheWinter10, mostly from a Cambridge Grange Road-Queen’s Road circular walk. #WildflowerHour
January 18, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Daisy, Annual mercury, Red dead nettle, Primrose, Nipplewort, Sweet violet, Feverfew, Groundsel, Red dead nettle, White dead nettle and Dandelion. #TheWinter10, mostly from a Cambridge Grange Road-Queen’s Road circular walk. #WildflowerHour
Highlight of the year was meeting Welsh Groundsel (Senecio cambrensis), an endearing but somewhat forgotten endemic evolved from a hybrid of Groundsel & Oxford Ragwort. Surveying the few remaining sites I found 153 plants. That’s the total world population, making it 16 times rarer than pandas.
December 18, 2024 at 8:12 PM
Highlight of the year was meeting Welsh Groundsel (Senecio cambrensis), an endearing but somewhat forgotten endemic evolved from a hybrid of Groundsel & Oxford Ragwort. Surveying the few remaining sites I found 153 plants. That’s the total world population, making it 16 times rarer than pandas.
A couple of lovely plants from the #DaisyFamily spotted on today's Leicester Botany Group meeting - Chicory (introduced) and Sticky Groundsel. #wildflowerhour
August 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A couple of lovely plants from the #DaisyFamily spotted on today's Leicester Botany Group meeting - Chicory (introduced) and Sticky Groundsel. #wildflowerhour