Galinsoga quadriradiata

Galinsoga quadriradiata
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Shaggy Soldier

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Anthophyta
Flowering plants
Daisy family
Asteraceae
Photographer: Pauline Churchill
Covell Cross. This is a stone cross in front of the Gillows Museum in the "Judges Lodgings" house in the town of Lancaster.
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25 July 2009
Section: Wild Plants and Fungi of the British Isles
 
British Isles status: introduced after 1500 AD
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Galinsoga quadriradiata

Shaggy Soldier

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Anthophyta
Flowering plants
Daisy family
Asteraceae
Photographer: John Crellin
Near Plympton, Plymouth
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The Latin means "four-rayed" ? Stace says that this flower normally has 5 ligules (or rays). Perhaps the first examples described happened to have mainly 4 rays.

David Fenwick found the site, identified the plants and took me there to see them.

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07 October 2006
Section: Wild Plants and Fungi of the British Isles
 
British Isles status: introduced after 1500 AD
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