Common Ragwort
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Common Ragwort
Taken on Jura on 13 July 2017 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Common Ragwort.
Species:
Order:
Family:
Habit:
Jacobaea vulgaris.
Asterales.
Asteraceae.
Biennial but it has the tendency to exhibit perennial properties under certain cultural conditions
Habitat:
Blooms:
Height:
Feature:
 Roadsides and waste ground.
Pollination is by a wide range of bees, flies, moths and butterflies.
0.3 - 2.0 metres
Ragwort contains many different alkaloids, making it poisonous to animals. It 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.