- "The open run, sir. It's been broken in and stopped from down below."
- — Ragwort to Woundwort
Ragwort is a buck from Efrafa who is also in the Owsla.
Biography[]
Book[]
He is a heavy, stolid Owsla sentry, who at first had some difficulty in understanding what it was that General Woundwort wanted to know. At one point, Woundwort calls Ragwort a fool.
He helped Captain Mallow and the others to dig out a warren found by Captain Orchis to add rabbits to Efrafa. He took part in the attack on Watership Down, but it is unknown what happens to him afterwards
Miniseries[]
In this version, Ragwort is the brother of Woundwort and Milkwort. As kittens, they are taken by their father to raid a garden, Woundwort being ordered to keep watch while the others joyfully feast on cabbages. However, a fox watches them from the bushes, and, due to Woundwort going tharn, is able to ambush and kill Ragwort, Milkwort and their father.
Trivia[]
- The narration in the book calls Ragwort the most unimaginative rabbit alive.
- In an unused storyboard for the Netflix series, Ragwort survives the fox attack along with Woundwort. Both brothers are captured afterwards by a human and are kept in a hutch for some time before Woundwort breaks them out. They flee back into the wild and soon find Efrafa. During their time in the hutch, Ragwort is shown to be disturbed by the dark shift in his brother's personality.
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