ragwort

From rag (referring to the ragged leaves) +‎ wort.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹæɡwəːt/

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ragwort (countable and uncountable, plural ragworts)

1. Any of a number of wild flowering plants with yellow flowers in the family Asteraceae, mostly belonging to Senecio and related genera.
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 237:

     Ragwort is under the command of dame Venus, and cleanses, digests and discusses.

   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 157:

     Sea-poppies and ragwort were plants of ill-fame, too.

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 267:

     As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.

• broad-leaved ragwort (Senecio sarracenicus)
• Chinese ragwort (Sinacalia tangutica)
• common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
• Flagstaff ragwort (Senecio actinella)
• golden ragwort (Packera aurea)
• marsh ragwort (Jacobaea aquatica)
• Mojave ragwort (Senecio mohavensis)
• Mono ragwort (Senecio pattersonensis)
• Monro's ragwort (Brachyglottis monroi)
• Musinea ragwort (Packera musiniensis)
• narrow-leaved ragwort (Senecio inaequidens)
• nodding ragwort (Senecio bigelovii)
• Oxford ragwort (Senecio squalidus)
• pink ragwort (Senecio glastifolius)
• Podunk ragwort (Packera malmstenii)
• purple ragwort, redpurple ragwort (Senecio elegans)
• sea ragwort (Jacobaea maritima)
• South African ragwort (Senecio inaequidens)
• tansy ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
• water ragwort (Jacobaea aquatica)
• woad-leaved ragwort (Senecio glastifolius)
• woolly ragwort (Packera tomentosa, Senecio garlandii, S. littoralis)

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