Photographs: Foynes Port, Co. Limerick

Narrow-leaved Ragwort Senecio inaequidens Family: Asteraceae Short-lived perennial. Introduced wool-alien. Yellow flowers, petals wider spaced than those of Common Ragwort. The bright green leaves are linear, +/- entire and sessile with the leaf margins irregularly toothed. Lower stems woody. Branched, sprawling growth habit, height to 80cm. Rare but increasing on waste ground, roadsides and railway lines near ports, probably introduced with wool shoddy. Native of South Africa, widely naturalised in Europe and first recorded in Ireland in 1999 (NI). Similar: Oxford Ragwort, Senecio squalidus

Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens