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JOHS. GRONTVED
Senecio sylvaticus Linn.
Lindsay, 1861, p. 30.—Baring-Gould, 1863, p. 429.—Babington, 1871, p. 314.
Baring-Gould states that this species also, “grows on the heithies” ; Lindsay re-
cords it without localities, and Babington has doubts concerning it. It should be
excluded from the Icelandic Flora.
396. Senecio vulgaris Linn., Sp. pl. ed. I (1753) p. 867.
K. & M., 1770, p. 209.—Babington, 1871, p. 314.—Gronlund, Isl. Fl., 1881,
p. 78.—Stefánsson, Fl. ísl., ed. 1, 1901, p. 198.—Ibid., ed. 2, 1924, p. 224.—
O. & Gr., 1924, p. 143.
Flora Dan. tab. 513.
Icelandic: Krossgrass. Danish : Stolt Henrik, Almindelig Brandbæger. English : Com-
mon Groundsel, Birdseed.
Most likely originally introduced in Icel., but now fully naturalized. Usually
near inhabited places, but may also occur far from towns and farmsteads; thus in
Ytri Hreppar, S., on gravelly flats. See fig. 176.
Life-form : Th.
On cultivated ground, around inhabited places and in gardens as a weed. On sandy
and gravelly beaches.
Flor. VI—VIII; fr. mat. VII—IX.
Max. height: 30 cm; average : 16 cm.
Geogr. area: Am.: Naturalized from Eur. in N. and S. Am.—Greenl.: (introduced)
at Ivigtút.—Eur.: Fær.; E.S.I. ; throughout Europe from 69° N. lat.—Asia: North-
and Central Asia to Tibet and Lake Baikal.—N. Africa, Abyssinia, S. Afr.—Australia.