An important new book from PFAF. Read More. A good food plant for the caterpillars of many butterfly and moth species, and is one of only two species that provide food for cinnabar moth caterpillars. Dynamic accumulator.
Attracts Wildlife. A common weed of cultivated land, it does not require cultivation. Groundsel is a good food plant for the caterpillars of many butterfly and moth species, and is one of only two species that provide food for cinnabar moth caterpillars.
One report states that this plant was formerly cultivated as a food crop for livestock[54]! Since the plant is a cumulative toxin this use is most questionable. Celsius Fahrenheit:. Plants For A Future have a number of books available in paperback and digital form.
Our new book to be released soon is Edible Shrubs. Seed - it doesn't need any encouragement from us. Right plant wrong place. We are currently updating this section. Author L. For a list of references used on this page please go here. More comprehensive details, medicinal properties, uses, botanical data, plant description and photogallery of high resolutions photos of this plant can be seen on an interesting website about the wild plants of Malta: www.
Hello, I am a researcher working in the field of herb effect and safety. In recent years, I am interested in Senecio family, and have conducted some studies in Senecio scandens which is used as a medicinal plant in China. I want to do the comparative study on Senecio vulgaris and Senecio scandens, but S. I wonder if it is possible to get this plant from your company. Thank you very much.
If you have important information about this plant that may help other users please add a comment or link below. Many species of the genus Senecio contain significant amounts of pyrrolizidine alkaloids, nasty toxins which cause irreversible liver damage over time. It was, and is, sometimes used as an herbal medicine, mostly as an emetic to make you throw up but even small amounts can cause liver damage, so groundsel tea is not a natural cure to experiment with.
It can poison cattle and horses as well as humans, and so it would be an unwelcome sight in a pasture, where the aggressive little plant would be a threat to grazing livestock. I would suspect that the Anglo-Saxons saw groundsel not as a plant to swallow, but as a plant that would swallow the ground, growing unchecked over the fields, taking over whole pastures.
This grocery store sits on what was once undoubtedly farmland. This groundsel is a tiny remnant of a long-gone pasture. The cows and horses are gone but the the powerful little poisoner still lurks outside Price Chopper. Any advice, other than stopping eating it and reporting my suspicions to the seller?
Maybe dose up on genuine Milk Thistle tabs…. But when dried or cooked, all leaves look pretty much alike. It would take a better botanist than I am to tell for sure. Maybe a botany professor at a local college or a museum could help you find out for sure? Best of luck! Please leave answers to these questions in the comments boxes. We have made it easier for you to do this today.
If you have any other advice or a recipe that you would like us to include, tell us recipes will be attributed to you. It is believed to have got this name from the appearance of the grey hairs on the seeds. One plant will produce around 1, seeds, with hairs which are dispersed by the wind and birds which love to eat them. It is in flower between May and October. It is a member of the Asteraceae or daisy family of plants. It has numerous other names, including Old-Man-in-the-Spring, birdseed, chickenweed, grinsel and grundsel to mention just a few.
It is an invasive alien species in North America and probably arrived on its shores in sacks of grain seed, but it is native to Europe , North Africa , and parts of Asia. It has mainly been used for chickenfeed and for birdseed - the Victorians fed their canaries on it in Britain. Groundsel contains some pyrrolizidine alkaloids which are also found in Common Ragwort, and these cause progressive, irreversible damage and ultimately death to cows and other animals.
However sheep and goats, have rumen bacteria which breaks down these toxins and so they can be used to keep down groundsel in fields.
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