Senecio erosus L.F.

Woolly-stemmed groundsel Stemless perennial, up to 600 mm tall, subglabrous to glandular-haired, with short, erect, almost bulb-like rhizome. Leaves basal, petiolate, base expanded and sheathing rhizome, densely silky-woolly in axils and on sheath, oblanceolate, mostly 60-120 mm long, irregularly toothed or lacerate. Flowerheads (1-)3-10 in loose corymbs on long, sparsely leafy peduncles, radiate (rarely discoid), yellow, ray florets sometimes reddish on reverse; involucre cylindrical, 8-10 mm diam., bracts ± 24-30, 7-12 x ± 1 mm, bracteoles 3-5, narrowly triangular.