Groundsel

(Senecio vulgaris)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habit: Erect cool-season annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from taproot

Leaf anatomy: Basal rosette, alternate upward, soft, fleshy, obovate to oblanceolate, margins dentate to irregularly pinnately lobed; can be pubescent

Reproduction: Loose clusters of 8-20 heads, no ray florets, disk florets golden yellow

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}