Family: Asteraceae Common Fleabane Pulicaria dysenterica Flowering time: August-September. Perennial. Native Can be very frequent on damp and clay soils at roadsides and in ditches and damp fields. Golden-yellow disc-shaped flowers with tubular inner florets, the seeds with unbranched pappus hairs. The leaves clasp the stems and are softly hairy, slightly toothed and wavy-edged. A branched, +/- erect plant that spreads by means of many underground runners. Height 20-60cm

   


Common Fleabane, Pulicaria dysenterica
Puddletown, Dorset. September 2012