Hostname: page-component-74656f9884-2dmjx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-10T10:42:14.348Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Larry W. Mitich
Larry W. Mitich*
Affiliation:
Dep. Vegetable Crops, Univ. California. Davis. CA 95616
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Carolus Linnaeus described common groundsel, Senecio vulgaris, in his Species Plantarum, published in 1753 (2). The generic name is derived from the Latin senex meaning old or old man, the pappus resembling a white beard (4). Vulgaris is from the Latin vulgari meaning common, usual, or ordinary (7, 18).

Information

Type
The Intriguing World of Weeds
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 209 - 211
Copyright
Copyright © 1995 by the Weed Science Society of America 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Literature Cited

1. Berntson, G. M. and Woodward, F. I. 1992. The root system architecture and development of Senecio vulgaris in elevated CO2 and drought. Funct. Ecol. 6:324–333.Google Scholar
2. Britton, N. L. and Brown, A. 1898. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Volume 3. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.Google Scholar
3. Culpeper, N. 1802. Culpeper's Herbal or The Complete English Family Physician, with additions by Gordon, G. A. Hogg and Co., London. 416 p.Google Scholar
4. Darlington, W. 1859. American Weeds and Useful Plants. Orange Judd & Company, New York. 460 p.Google Scholar
5. Georgia, A. 1942. Manual of Weeds. The Macmillan Co., New York. 593 p.Google Scholar
6. Gerard, J. 1928. Gerard's Herbal. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston. 69 p.Google Scholar
7. Jaeger, E. C. 1944. A Source-book of Biological Names and Terms (2nd Ed.). Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL. 257 p.Google Scholar
8. Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous Plants of the United States and Canada. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ. 626 p.Google Scholar
9. LeStrange, R. 1977. A History of Herbal Plants. Angus and Robertson, Publishers, London. 304 p.Google Scholar
10. Long, H. C. 1910. Common Weeds of the Farm and Garden. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. 451 p.Google Scholar
11. Mabberley, D. J. 1989. The Plant-Book. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 706 p.Google Scholar
12. McHenry, W. B., Bushnell, R. B., Oliver, M. N., and Norris, R. F. 1990. Three Poisonous Plants Common in Pasture and Hay. Univ. Calif. Coop. Ext. Pub. 21483, 9 p.Google Scholar
13. McCloskey, W. B. and Holt, J. S. 1991. Effect of growth temperature on biomass production of nearly isonuclear triazine-resistant and -susceptible common groundsel (Senecio vulgaris L.). Plant, Cell and Environment 14:699–705.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
14. Ren, Z. and Abbott, R. J. 1991. Seed dormancy in Mediterranean Senecio vulgaris L. New Phytol. 117:673–678.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
15. Ryan, G. F. 1970. Resistance of common groundsel to simazine and atrazine. Weed Sci. 18:614–616.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
16. Simpson, J. A. and Weiner, E. S. C. 1989. The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Ed. Clarendon Press, Oxford.Google Scholar
17. Theaker, A. J. and Briggs, D. 1993. Genecological studies of groundsel (Senecio vulgaris L.). IV. Rate of development in plants from different habitat types. New Phytol. 123:185–194.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
18. Zimdahl, R. L. 1989. Words and Weeds. Iowa State University Press, Ames. 125 p.Google Scholar