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groundsel

1. any of certain plants of the genus Senecio, esp S. vulgaris, a Eurasian weed with heads of small yellow flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
2. groundsel tree a shrub, Baccharis halimifolia, of E North America, with white plumelike fruits: family Asteraceae
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groundsel

groundsel

TOXIC This plant is toxic. Has fluffy white round seed head surrounded by multiple yellow flowers THAT NEVER OPEN.
Edible Plant Guide © 2012 Markus Rothkranz

groundsill, ground beam, ground plate, mudsill, sole plate

In a framed structure, the sill which is nearest the ground or on the ground; used to distribute concentrated loads.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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They do enjoy some fresh fruit and vegetables such as apple, tomato, lettuce, carrot and well-washed wild plants such as dandelion, clover and groundsel. Rhubarb leaves, potato tops and tomato leaves can be poisonous to hamsters.
Pollinator movements and the polymorphism for outcrossing rate at the ray floret locus in groundsel, Senecio vulgaris L.
Heading east, you'll see balsam root and groundsel on Dog and Wind mountains near Home Valley, and camas and lupines between Bingen and Lyle.
The downy seeds of the groundsel are taking their flight; the calyx has dismissed them and quite curled back, having done its part.
Recently, germander (Teucriurn chamaedrys), in the form of a tea or capsule, has been reported to cause hepatotoxicity (4), and other herbs known to have hepatotoxic properties include Senecio longilobus (groundsel), Scutellaria laterifolia (skullcap), Symphyturn spp.
Depending on the season and the particular aspen grove you are walking through, look for geraniums, blue-bells, larkspur, vetch, strawberry, groundsel, yarrow, columbine, lupine It has been said that there is no greater concentration of species of blue wildflowers anywhere, let alone the many other flowers represented.
(Of course, if you don't live in the tropics, chances are you'll never run into a cycad.) * Ragwort or groundsel (Senecio) and rattlebox (Crotolaria).
pine 127 29.9 1.2 Red maple 51 12.0 0.8 Oaks 33 7.8 1.5 Blackberry 20 4.7 0.8 Amer, cane 8 1.9 0.5 Red elm 1 0.2 1.3 * Groundsel 1 0.2 1.2 * Totals 388 91.3 Herbaceous N % Total Mean ht (m) Goldenrods 19 4.5 0.5 Soft rushes 8 1.9 0.3 Bluestem 6 1.4 0.4 Asters 2 0.5 0.3 Dog fennel 2 0.5 0.7 Totals 37 8.7 * Not a mean (n = 1) TABLE 2.--Oviposition sites for egg cases deposited on woody and herbaceous vegetation as determined by searches in January 2006 (25 h searching by the authors and three others) and March 2007 (9 h searching by the authors) 2006 N % Total Mean ht (m) Sweet gum 56 33.5 1.7 Lobl.
MALIGN ELEGANCE Rust disease is a prize leek grower's worst nightmare and here a common groundsel plant is pictured infected with the spores of the rust fungus.
Woodland groundsel, seed number 5 in the GFS arrangement, is an annual plant of wastelands and poor soils, unlike the almost identical common groundsel (S.
Move groundsel and chickweed near growing chrysanthemums as they host chrysanthemum eelworm ?
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