Senecio erucifolius L. - Hoary Ragwort


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Grassy bank of East Lancs Road (SD7301, DP Earl, 1991) possibly now lost following recent construction works (2009); grassland by motorway junction, Clifton (SD7703).

Formerly at Patricroft (SJ7697, Buxton 1849).

T Edmondson (1953) comments that this species was "common and widespread' in the western parts of Chat Moss, plants have not been seen in the Salford Borough but there is a recent record from Astley Green (SJ7099, DP Earl & P Bowdler, 2011).

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