Common groundsel
Senecio vulgaris L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 41 cm
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Also called Groundsel
When it flowers
Flowers June to February in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- AnnualKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Macaronesia, Europe to China and Arabian Pen.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 41 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
Grow it with
Suggested by a rule, not by a gardener: same climate (kew), flowering when this plant does not (inaturalist), and a different shape.
ElderFlowers March to May, when this does not
Glossy abeliaFlowers March to May, when this does not
Japanese honeysuckleFlowers March to May, when this does not
Memorial RoseFlowers March to May, when this does not
PurslaneFlowers March to May, when this does not
Tree RhododendronFlowers March to May, when this does not
In other languages (12)
- root
- SENVUL, loðin danadái, Grúnlas
- Finnish
- peltovillakko
- French
- Séneçon commun
- German
- Gewöhnliches Greiskraut, Gemeines Greiskraut, Gemeines Kreuzkraut
- Hebrew
- סביון פשוט
- Swedish
- Korsört
- Japanese
- ノボロギク, 野襤褸菊
- Spanish
- hierba cana
- Dutch
- Klein Kruiskruid
- Czech
- starček obecný
- Norwegian Bokmål
- åkersvineblom
- Chinese
- 歐洲黃菀
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Senecio vulgaris (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.