Get to Know Ragworts

Keen to start identifying the wildflowers you encounter on your walks across the North East? If so, our new 'Get to Know Wildflowers' series might be for you!
In this short talk, NHSN Senior Naturalist, James Common, introduces the Ragwort species you're most likely to encounter across North East England. How many will you find?
For more on North East wildflowers, visit: www.nhsn.org.uk/

[@philipgriffiths9859]

Great video. Thank you!

[@jamescommon4286]

Thanks, Philip :)

[@sandraparkin9372]

I've really enjoyed the three videos in this series but I have a request: please make more!
To see these videos on a regular basis would be lovely.
I'm hoping later in the year to begin creating a garden using native species from the North East and love to see what grows in the area.
Really interesting video, thank you ☺️

[@someuser4166]

thank you. i like to eat dandelions / make tea out of them so its nice being able to identify these so i wont poison myself.

[@benharrison8973]

Sid the sloth?

[@jonathangreally1034]

Very interested video. Just wanted to know is it just the common ragwort that is poisonous to horses? I live on the buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire boarder and have free draining chalky soil. We have the common ragwort but also noticed few small areas also what believe is the hoary ragwort in our field in which we do keep horses. I know the risk is relatively low as common ragwort isn’t very palatable to horses but is more dangerous when it’s cut as hay as taste is not a noticeable once dried so horses are at greater risk of eating it. Do you know if hoary ragwort is just as bad if eaten by horses?