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Ragweed - Ambrosia artemisiifolia

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Ragweed Ragweed - Ambrosia artemisiifolia dylan Eastville park 23 Aug 2025, 5:46 p.m. 23 Aug 2025, 10:37 a.m.
Ragweed Ragweed - Ambrosia artemisiifolia dylan Eastville park 23 Aug 2025, 5:46 p.m. 23 Aug 2025, 10:27 a.m.
Ragweed Ragweed - Ambrosia artemisiifolia dylan Eastville park 23 Aug 2025, 5:46 p.m. 23 Aug 2025, 10:04 a.m.
Ragweed Ragweed - Ambrosia artemisiifolia dylan Eastville park 23 Aug 2025, 5:46 p.m. 23 Aug 2025, 10:04 a.m.
Ragweed Ragweed - Ambrosia artemisiifolia dylan Eastville park 23 Aug 2025, 5:46 p.m. 23 Aug 2025, 10:04 a.m.
Ragweed Ragweed - Ambrosia artemisiifolia dylan Eastville park 23 Aug 2025, 5:46 p.m. 23 Aug 2025, 10:05 a.m.

Species Description

Widespread but infrequent casual (often birdseed alien) throughout the UK. Habitat includes: margins of lakes and reservoirs, tips, wasteland etc.

Stace 4:

Ambrosia artemisiifolia L. - Ragweed.

Annual; stems erect, to 1m; leaves deeply pinnately divided, the larger ones with the primary lobes divided again, green, appressed-hairy but often sparsely so; (2n=36). Neophyte-casual; waste ground and tips from several sources, including birdseed and oilseed; fairly frequent in Britain North to Central Scotland, Channel Isles, Isle of Man, sometimes semi-naturalised; North America.

Key:

  • Leaves pinnately divided nearly to base, the upper ones alternate; leaf lobes <1cm wide
  • Annual; female phyllaries in fruit with small erect spines near or above the middle

Useful Links:

Naturespot

Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora

Botany in Scotland

British Ecological Society

Wikipedia

iNaturalist

Kew

GBIF

NBN