Yellow Daisies & Ragworts

Daisy Family - Asteraceae

Downy Leopard's-bane Doronicum caucasicum

Native to eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Typically a plant of shadier places in the mountains. Has been much confused, taxonomically, in books with Eastern Leopard's-bane Doronicum columnae, with both species having been labelled as D. orientale at times. This species has tufts of hairs on the rhizome, crispate-pubescent hairs on both surfaces of the basal leaves and usually two stem leaves.


Habit	Flowerheads	Phyllaries	Leaf

Creeping Ragwort Senecio angulatus

(Cape Ivy) Introduced from South Africa as an ornamental and spreading into the wider countryside from gardens.


Habit	Habit	Flowerheads	Flowerheads

Phyllaries	Leaves	Leaves

Common Groundsel Senecio vulgaris

Believed to be native throughout most of Eurasia, but it has been associated with human cultivations for so long that its true, natural distribution is probably no longer known. An ephemeral species, capable of producing several, short-lived, populations over the course of year. May grow to around 45cm in height and well-branched, but often much smaller. Fully developed individuals have pendulous flowerheads, but small plants may have upright flowers. The leaves are very variable, from almost hairless to having a good covering of simple, white hairs, especially on the underside.


Habit	Habit	Flowerheads	Flowerheads

Phyllaries	Leaf	Leaf	Seedhead

Eastern Groundsel Senecio vernalis

Native throughout most of Europe, western Asia and the Middle East.


Habit	Habit	Flowerheads	Phyllaries

Leaf	Leaf	Seedhead

Silver Ragwort Jacobaea maritima

Native to coastal regions of the Mediterranean Basin.


Habit	Flowerheads	Lower leaves	Upper leaves

Field Marigold Calendula arvensis

Native throughout most of the Western Palearctic. Widespread as an annual of cultivated and disturbed ground.


Habit	Habit	Flowerhead	Phyllaries

Basal leaf	Leaf detail	Seedhead	Seedhead

Crown Daisy Glebionis coronaria

Native throughout the Mediterranean Basin and Middle East. Common as a weedy plant of roadsides and rough ground, often forming extensive colonies.


Habit	Habit	Habit	Flowerhead

Phyllaries	Lower leaf	Lower leaf	Upper leaf

Corn Marigold Glebionis segetum

Native to much of Europe and the Mediterranean Region. Frequent as a weed of cultivation.


Habit	Flowerhead	Phyllaries	Leaf

Common Fleabane Pulicaria dysenterica

Native throughout most of Europe and the Mediterranean Region, eastward to the Himalayas. A bushy, much-branched herbaceous perennial, forming spreading colonies of densely white-downy stems with deeply corrugated leaves.


Habit	Habit	Flowers	Phyllaries

Leaf	Leaf

Woody Fleabane Dittrichia viscosa

Native throughout the Mediterranean Basin. A plant of roadsides and degraded land.


Habit	Habit	Flower spike	Flowerhead

Phyllaries	Leaf	Stem

Spiny Pallenis Pallenis spinosa

Native from Macaronesia, throughout the Mediterranean Region and eastwards to Iran. Differs from all other similar 'yellow daisies' in having sharp spines on the phyllaries surrounding the flowerhead.


Habit	Flowerheads	Flowerheads	Flowerhead

Early season growth	Young flowerheads	Leaf

Golden-samphire Limbarda crithmoides

Native along Mediterranean and Atlantic European coastlines. A plant of coastal marshes and rocks.


Habit	Flowerheads	Flowerheads	Seedheads

Mullein-leaved Fleabane Pentanema verbascifolium

(Inula verbascifolia) Native through the eastern Mediterranean, from Italy to Lebanon. Typically found on rocky slopes, cliff faces and walls.


Habit	Habit	Flowerhead	Flowerhead

Phyllaries	Leaves	Leaves

Flora of Peloponnese An Identification Guide

Yellow Daisies & Ragworts

Daisy Family - Asteraceae

Species List

Flora of Peloponnese
An Identification Guide