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Senecio viscosus (Sticky Groundsel)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Senecio viscosus is a herbaceous annual plant of the genus Senecio. It is known as the sticky ragwort, sticky groundsel or stinking groundsel.
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Invasive Species

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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  High
Bee Flower Color [2]  UV-Green
Flower Color [2]  Yellow
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Hazards [3]  All parts of the plant are poisonous to many mammals, including humans. The toxin affects the liver and has a cumulative affect; Some mammals, such as rabbits, do not seem to be harmed by the plant, and will often seek it out; Various birds also eat the leaves and seeds;
Lifespan [3]  Annual
Pollinators [3]  Bees, Flies
Structure [5]  Herb
Height [3]  16 inches (0.4 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [4]  Moist
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Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Uredo campanulae[7]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0