Dear Gurcharan Ji, Thanks for the ID and the very interesting anecdote and copy of paper. That students were forced to identify a plant with only disc florets as *Sonchus *a plant with only ray florets speaks volumes about how much more we have to do to improve our educational institutions. In your paper you have referred to it along with *Trifolium dubium* as an introduced species (which has become invasive like *Conyza). Conyza canadensis* has even been given a vernacular name *"Shael e loet" *by the locals. With sincere regards Taffazull On Monday, March 6, 2023 at 1:28:40 AM UTC+5:30 Gurcharan Singh wrote:
> Senecio vulgaris, a common Spring weed in Kashmir. An interesting story > relating to this plant. The plant is very common in KU Campus, especially > Orchards behind Botanical Garden. We were taught in our M. Sc. Class that > it is Sonchus plant, and it came in our final exam also to describe and > identify the genus from the Key. I had the habit of describing flowers from > original plant, and as such I described the capitulum with disc florets (as > ray florets are highly reduced in this species), but when using the key it > did not fit Sonchus (in which there are only ray florets), but I and other > friends wrote Sonchus, as there was no other option, but this bugged me a > lot, and when I joined research, this was the first plant I investigated > and found that species has never been reported from Kashmir, and published > as among first records from Kashmir in 1972. I am attaching the paper. > > On Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 4:17:52 PM UTC+5:30 [email protected] wrote: > >> Dear Members, >> Kindly help in identifying the herb whose photos are attached. It was >> growing wild in a field in Srinagar. It was photographed today only . >> Regards >> Taffazull >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "eFloraofIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/indiantreepix/ea79cacb-9e6a-48d5-9047-aef1b886b544n%40googlegroups.com.
