Senecio vulgaris Linnaeus 1753 (Family Asteraceae)
Height: 5-50cm
Occasionally Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Annual, Persistent Seed Bank
Hermaphrodite, Flowering January - December
(Earliest: 1.4)
Protective Chemicals |
Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids |
Integerrimine, Jacobine, Jacoline, Jaconine, Jacozine,
Retrorsine, Senecionine, Seneciphylline, Senecivernine |
Terpenoids |
Loliolide, Oplopanone |
Benzoquinones |
Jacaranone |
Biotopes: |
Meadows |
Gardens |
Microhabitat: |
Bare Ground |
Pollination: |
Autopollination |
Seed Dispersal: |
Wind |
Parasites: |
Several Agromyzidae |
Ensina sonchi Larva (Flower Gall) |
Sphenella marginata Larva (Flower Gall) |
Herbivores: |
Many Noctuidae |
Xanthorhoe montanata Larva |
Xanthorhoe quadrifasiata Larva |
Tyria jacobaeae Larva |
|
Macrophya sanguinolenta Larva |
Longitarsus ochroleucus |
Possible Herbivores: |
Several Noctuidae |
Cnephasia asseclana |
Cnephasia incertana |
Anania lancealis Larva |
|
Mesotype didymata |
Pachyprotasis simulans Larva |
Tenthredo ferruginea Larva |
Sapivores: |
Several Aphididae |
Several Miridae |
Possible Sapivores: |
Several Cicadellidae |
Several Miridae |
Enoplops scapha |
Carpocoris melanocerus |
Florivores: |
Eupithecia absinthiata Larva |
Eupithecia centaureata |
Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora:
Groundsel
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