Photographs: Bantry, Co. Cork

Silver Ragwort x Common Ragwort Jacobaea maritima x vulgaris (Jacobaea x albescens) Previously Senecio cineraria x S.jacobaea (Senecio x albescens) Family: Asteraceae Flowering summer - autumn. Perennial. A fertile hybrid with yellow flowers similar to those of Ragwort. The greyish-green leaves can be more or less silvery pubescent. Usually intermediate in appearance between parents but back-crosses occur. Casual, sometimes persistent on urban walls, pavement cracks, waste ground and on sea cliffs and dunes. The first Irish record was from Killiney Bay, Dublin in 1902.

Jacobaea x albescens, Silver Ragwort x Common Ragwort