I've just noticed some small plants, about primrose size that look like ragwort in a wooded part of the farm near a stream. Not the tall stemmy jobs you would expect but fully in flower. Is there a kind of junior version? I'll keep an eye on it over the year. So far off limits from animals.
Small Ragwort
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Davey
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- Location
- Derbyshire
Yes you get the bud and then the full flower, don't watch it just pull it up!
Buggerallbandwidth
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A picture would be useful.
No flowering ragwort in the UK yet.
No flowering ragwort in the UK yet.
It's dinky though. Like a primrose as I said. We had a problem years ago on another place and they were like 3 feet tall.
I'll give it a go
Davey
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- Location
- Derbyshire
This is basically what it will look like before you get the full stem and flower, as said seems a bit early though?
- Location
- N W Snowdonia
Looks like Celandine.
www.rhs.org.uk
Lesser celandine / RHS
A cheerful sight in spring with its bright yellow flowers, lesser celandine is a good source of early pollen and nectar for pollinating insects. Although mostly a welcome, fleeting wildflower in our gardens, its spread into fine lawns and well-kept borders can be seen as a nuisance.
It does. Thanks.Looks like Celandine.
Lesser celandine / RHS
A cheerful sight in spring with its bright yellow flowers, lesser celandine is a good source of early pollen and nectar for pollinating insects. Although mostly a welcome, fleeting wildflower in our gardens, its spread into fine lawns and well-kept borders can be seen as a nuisance.
deleted user 837354
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I was confused as fudge then looking at the picture as I couldn't see any ragwort, my eyesight can't be that bad...! 
There are several types of ragwort, all quite different in how & where they grow. I had Marsh Ragwort growing along a winter borne the behaved differently from the Common Ragwort most see all too clearly.
Edit: I hadn't seen the photo as I was typing this. Sorry
Edit: I hadn't seen the photo as I was typing this. Sorry
deleted user 837354
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Not sure how much animals will eat this stuff, it grows close to the ground. I think docks and buttercup are technically toxic to stock but they never seem to bothered to eat them.
I guess Polo or 2,4D would curl it up.
Yeah it's only a dinky bit in the field at the mo. Most is behind the fence in the coppice. But you know what horse folk are like......
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deleted user 837354
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MCPA was gonna be my next suggestion.
From memory, it’s in Polo anyway. It grows from tubers, so needs repeated treatment to exhaust the plant
2wheels
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
grow the flowers and get rid of the horses.
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