Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae] |
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6th Aug 2015, near Chatsworth, Peak Dist. | Photo: © RWD |
A tall garden plant growing to 2m in height. |
6th Aug 2015, near Chatsworth, Peak Dist. | Photo: © RWD |
Another specimen just on the wrong side of a garden wall. Another specimen is on the left behind the garden wall. When they escape, these plants become naturalised on rough ground, beside lakes and rivers |
10th July 2009, Cafe garden, Grange, Borrowdale Valley, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
Large leaves, showy large yellow flowers. Upper leaves without stalks and rounded to broadly cuneate at the base (not tapering in a narrowly-triangular wedge shape as are on the otherwise very similar Elecampane (Inula helenium) - which is in a differing genus). The teeth are dentate (not narrow-cuneate as are the similar Elecampane). [Rosebay at the riverside]. |
6th Aug 2015, near Chatsworth, Peak Dist. | Photo: © RWD |
It looks like this lone specimen has escaped from one of the gardens near Chatsworth. But it probably didn't get far before being captured by my camera. |
10th July 2009, Cafe garden, Grange, Borrowdale Valley, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
The outer ray-florets are long and thin, with perhaps one nick at the end. Flowers 5 to 8cm across and more or less the same height on long stalks. Note longish green phyllaries most noticeable below the third flower. |
10th July 2009, Cafe garden, Grange, Borrowdale Valley, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
The bee shows the size. |
10th July 2009, Cafe garden, Grange, Borrowdale Valley, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
A large central dome with hundreds of orange-yellow disc-florets. |
10th July 2009, Cafe garden, Grange, Borrowdale Valley, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
Some petals have a single notch or 'pink' at the tip. |
26th June 2017, a garden, Walkden, Greater M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Un-opened disc-florets in centre, opened at edge of the central area from where the flat ray florets spread outwards. |
10th July 2009, Cafe garden, Grange, Borrowdale Valley, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
An un-opened flower showing the green phyllaries peeling away from the flower looking a little like a yellow Globe Artichoke. Stems hairy. |
26th June 2017, a garden, Walkden, Greater M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Just barely opening. |
26th June 2017, a garden, Walkden, Greater M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Opened a little further, ray florets showing (which will widen as it opens). |
6th Aug 2015, near Chatsworth, Peak Dist. | Photo: © RWD |
Several rows of green/brown bracts with toothed rounded ends contain the inflorescence, the outer bracts peeling outward. The ray-florets have not yet splayed radialy outwards. |
26th June 2017, a garden, Walkden, Greater M/cr. | Photo: © RWD |
Ray florets widening and getting ready to stretch outwards. The three points on the ends of some of the deep-yellow ray-florets are an indication that those fused florets are in three's, whereas those with just 2 points have but 2 fused petals. (The florets of Dandelion are wider and usually consist of 5 fused petals). |
10th July 2009, Cafe garden, Grange, Borrowdale Valley, Cumbria | Photo: © RWD |
The large leaves get progressively smaller further up the stem. Lower leaves are stalked and distinctly heart-shaped (un-like those of Elecampane (Inula helenium) which are un-stalked and ovate to cordate. |
Easily mistaken for : Elecampane (Inula helenium) [another garden flower that escapes into the wild but that has narrower leaves which lack the cusped teeth. The flowers are also larger at 6-9cm across (as opposed to 5-8cm for Elecampane). The two are also in differing genera, but the same Dandelion & Daisy Family (Asteraceae)]
Not to be semantically confused with : Oxeye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare), Uniquely identifiable characteristics Distinguishing Feature : the cordate (heart-shaped) leaves) distinguish it from Elecampane. This large showy flower is planted in gardens where it can escape into the wild. It likes to grow near fresh-water such as lakes and rivers or on rough ground.
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Daisy & Dandelion Family [Asteraceae] |