Jacobaea vulgaris Gaertn., 1791
Common names
- 🇬🇧 Common Ragwort
- 🇫🇷 Jacobée commune, Senecon jacobée, Herbe de Saint-Jacques
Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Angiosperms
- Clade: Eudicots
- Clade: Superasterids
- Clade: Asterids
- Clade: Campanulids
- Order: Asterales
- Family: Asteraceae
- Subfamily: Asteroideae
- Tribe: Senecioneae
- Subtribe: Senecioninae
- Genus: Jacobaea
- Species: Jacobaea vulgaris
Presence
Present.
Conservation status
- Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
Notes
Possible confusion with J. erucifolia (L.) G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb., 1801, whose outer involucral bracts are distant from the inner ones, while those of J. vulgaris are applied against the inner ones.
The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:
- J. vulgaris subsp. dunensis (Dumort.) Pelser & Meijden, 2005;
- J. vulgaris subsp. gotlandica (Neuman) B.Nord., 2006;
- J. vulgaris subsp. pannonica Hodálová & Mered´a, 2014;
- J. vulgaris subsp. vulgaris
- var. discoidea (Wimm. & Grab.) Verloove & Galasso, 2023;
- var. vulgaris Gaertn., 1791, P.
Hybridizes with:
- J. alpina (L.) Moench, 1794 to produce J. × reisachii (Grembl.) B.Bock, 2012, P;
- J. maritima (L.) Pelser & Meijden, 2005 to produce J. × albescens (Burb. & Colgan) Verloove & Lambinon ex Verloove & Galasso, 2023, P.
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Sources
- Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 531). Biotope.