Plants and animals of Pointfield

An informal survey of the plant and animal life living in or visiting the grounds of Pointfield, Kelso since 2015   

Wild flowers 

Groundsel

Senecio vulgaris


Appearance

Small erect annual around 10-15 cm in height. Flowers yellow, dandilion-like, forming clusters; each flower bound with a green cylindrical base of bracts each with a black distal tip. Leaves long, narrow, jagged, with several long projecting lateral lobes. Flowers just opening at the end of January (2022).    

Habitat

Primarily in the vegitable garden in unweeded ground. Also in the gravel drive and elsewhere. 


Months in flower

2020
2021
2022
2023