Common Name: common groundsel, ragwortScientific Name: Senecio vulgaris L.Family Name: Asteraceae (Compositae) - Aster or Sunflower FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced winter annual, reproducing by seed Stemsupright, hairless, usually branched Leavesalternate, deeply and irregularly lobed, lower leaves short petiole, upper sessile Flowers heads of yellow disk (tubulate) florets, ray (ligulate) florets absent; terminal clusters, seed pappus forms white "puff ball"