On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:33:13 GMT, Simon Avery wrote:

We don't, yet it continues to flourish everywhere. Clear a field one
year either digging or catching early with spot-on, it's back the
next.

That's 'cause it's a biennial. Small flat rosettes the first year,
flower spikes the next. However it can switch to perennial when
damaged by cutting, grazing, pulling etc.

If you can face that document previously linked and dig through all
the waffle it does have some good information.

It's illegal to allow it to grow on your land. (Most county bylaws
specifically mention ragwort as a notifiable weed.)

But tolerated as it is a native plant and host to several
invertebrates. If it's more than 100m from grazing horses/stock or
land used to produce forage they say leave it. Of course round here we
are surrounded by sheep...

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