We are only half way February and some plants already made seeds.
This small Common Groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) shows flower heads and buds but also already silvery fluff on ripe seeds. It is a very common plant and it flowers all year round. You can find it in vegetable gardens, ruderalised spots, in town, in agricultural fields, in fact nearly everywhere where the soil is fertile and there is not too much competition from other plants. Here, it choose to grow on top of an old wall covered in earth. The other spring flowers that grow here just start flowering; there are some blue spots of Birdeye Speedwell (Veronica persica) flowers still closed.
In every flower head there are quite a number of tubular flowers just sticking out from the tube formed by bracts with each a black point. The lobed leaves are curled at the rims and carry often hairs like spider webs.
Common Groundsel is a Ragwort, and it is poisonous for cattle but less poisonous than some other Ragwort species. Maybe because youdo not find it often in hay, and because grazing animals avoid eating it. Apparently it tastes bad.