Common Ragwort seeds - Senecio jacobaea - Native Wildflower
| Type: | Biennial |
| Approximate height: | 30 cm to 1.5m |
| Flowering Time: | Summer |
| Site and soil type: | Most soils and positions. |
| When to sow: | Late spring to early autumn |
| Where to sow: | Outside, direct into soil or under cover, into trays, modules or pots. |
| Packet contents: | Approximately 100 seeds / 0.03 g |
Ragwort is an upright plant with pretty yellow flowers and deeply cut leaves.
Being biennial, it will produce a rosette of leaves in its first year and flowers in the second.
Although Ragwort is not without its controversy it is a very important plant for pollinators providing food for a vast number of species some of which rely on this plant alone for their survival.
For further information about Ragwort, please visit www.ragwortfacts.com
You can also find Buglife articles about Ragwort here and here.
WARNING: Do not sow in any area where there is livestock, especially horses and cattle, or any area where hay is grown and harvested.
We suggest that these seeds are sown in private gardens only where they will not self-seed onto paddocks or farmland.
Ragwort attracts and provides food for many different species including:
- Bumblebees
- Solitary Bees
- Soldier Beetles
- Hoverflies
- Butterflies including Small Copper🦋 and Small Skipper 🦋
- Moths including Sussex Emerald 🐛, Cinnabar 🐛, Dusky Sallow 🦋, Haworth's Minor 🦋 and Willow Beauty 🦋
All our seed packets include sowing instructions.
Jemima’s Garden seeds are plastic free and reyclable. They’re contained in an inner glassine envelope, (made from pine wood cellulose), and an outer Kraft paper seed packet. Any shipping packaging is also plastic free and recyclable.