Senecio gramineus Harv.

Perennial herb c. 10-35 cm tall, roots very narrowly fusiform, crown of stock fibrous from old leaf bases, flowering stems simple, sparsely leafy, grey-cottony, glabrescent, solitary from each leaf tuft, several tufts usually crowded on the crown. Leaves mostly radical, c. 5-20 x 0.1-0.2 cm, linear, apex obtuse, base abruptly broadened, sheathing, with long silky-woolly hairs, but often hidden by old fibres, margins strongly revolute, both surfaces enveloped in a grey, closely-felted, silky-woolly indumentum, glabrescent or partly so, cauline leaves similar but base not expanded, few, distant, soon passing into bracts. Heads radiate, often solitary but up to 3 corymbosely arranged on long peduncles. Involucre campanulate, bracts c. 14-20, 7-9 mm long, about equalling the disc, calyculus bracts few, all loosely and thinly woolly. Rays 8-13, they and the disc bright yellow. Achenes not seen, ovaries villous.