Senecio nemorensis, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 196

17. S. nemorensis L. , Sp. Pl. 870 (1753).

Perennial 50-200 cm. Stock short, with stolons absent or up to 10(-20) cm. Stems erect, branched above or only in inflorescence, densely leafy. Leaves 5-20 x 1-7 cm, not much decreasing in size up the stem, glabrous above, often hairy beneath, acute, more or less dentate or rarely almost doubly dentate, with the outer margin of the teeth straight or concave. Capitula many, 20-35 mm in diameter, in more or less compound corymbs; peduncles eglandular. Involucre 5-9 mm, glabrous or very sparsely hairy, eglandular, with 3-6 supplementary bracts; bracts often black-tipped. Ligules 5-6(-8), 12-15 mm, yellow. Achenes c. 4 mm, glabrous. Damp meadows and woods. Much ofEurope, but absent from most of Fennoscandia and from much of the Mediterranean region and the south-east. Al Au Be Bu Co Cz Ga Ge He Ho Hs Hu It Ju Lu Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, E) Tu [Su].