Plant ID help - pics

[Perissa]

After a 'helpful' person telling me that I have ragwort in my fields which is bad for horses I had to explain that it isn't ragwort. Shamefully I don't know what it is but I know it isn't ragwort.

So what is it...

Size comparison

 

[joeanne]

Its colts foot

 

[Frumpoon]

hahaha tis is why i love HHO...there's always somebody with ye olde herbe knowledge....

 

[Crumpet]

Its meadow fleabane, or Inula Britannica. Likes wet ground and can be invasive. Coltsfoot is much smaller and has a different leaf much like a horses foot shape, hence the name.

 

[Perissa]

Its colts foot

Off to google colts foot.....

 

[Perissa]

It's not colts foot.

Off to google meadow fleabane........

 

[0ldmare]

I'm with crumpet, its feabane.

 

[Perissa]

Mnnn doesn't look like Meadow fleabane which has white petals, these are yellow.....?

 

[0ldmare]

Or even Fleabane. Used to be used to get rid of fleas hence the name

 

[0ldmare]

No fleabane has yellow flowers The flowers look almost identical to ragwort

 

[Perissa]

Just googled Inula Britannica. The flower heads look the same but the leaves look different?....

 

[[59851]]

Looks like some sort of daisy - probably wrong, I'm not good with plants! I used to get alot of it growing in a field that bordered a river. I do know it is NOT ragwort though!

 

[Crumpet]

Try the latin name, the white fleabane is not native to the UK, same family though. Inula genus is quite large but Meadow Fleabane is yellow and a British native.

 

[Fii]

If it had a slightly more woody stem then it does look like flea bane!!

 

[planete]

Common fleabane, Pulicaria dysenterica?

 

[Perissa]

http://na.fs.fed.us/fhp/invasive_plants/weeds/british-yellowhead.pdf

Not entirely convinced, compare this picture to the ones I posted. This picture the petals are shorter and the middle bit bigger, 'my' petals are longer and the middle bit smaller. Also the leaves in the pic are longer and thinner than the leaves of my plant.....

 

[indie999]

I have an identical bunch of this in my field and thought it was some new species of ragwort(its not by the way) I think it looks like a cultivated daisy. It hasnt spread but has big daisy heads ie size of 50p

I have no idea but it looks like it came from someones flowery garden. I have never seen it before until this year. Its by the gate and I run it over a lot. Quite a nice flower.

 

[Perissa]

Common fleabane, Pulicaria dysenterica?

YES!!! It is common Fleabane.

http://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/common-fleabane

 

[igglepop]

Thanks for asking that, i have it in my field too and the amount of times i have traipsed over to it thinking it was ragwort is ridiculous. Can i juts check it is safe to have in field isn't it.