A a long belated best wished to you !! More images and description from : http://www.missouriplants.com/Yellowalt/Senecio_vulgaris_page.html
Regards Tanay On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > Senecio vulgaris L. from Kashmir, growing as weed in fields and flower > beds, mostly in semishaded areas. Easily differentiated from other species > by its annual habit, black-tipped phyllaries and absence of ray florets. > This plant coincidently was the beginning of my training in plant taxonomy. > This plant was given to us as a specimen for practical examination, Our > teacher had identified it as Sonchus sp., so when I sat for describing plant > (I had habit of describing plants from original, and not from memory) I > found only disc florests. We were given Hooker's Flora of British India to > identify the genus from key, and though I found problem in matching Sonchus, > which has only ray florets, I managed to identify this as Sonchus, simply > because our teacher had earlier identified the plant as such. > When I joined research, my doubts led me to study this plant as the first > one, as it was growing very commonly in our campus, and soon identified it > as Senecio vulgaris, and reported it as first record of the species from our > state, perhaps my first publication. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ <http://people.du.ac.in/%7Esinghg45/> > > -- Tanay Bose +91(033) 25550676 (Resi) 9830439691(Mobile)
