Senecio monticola Dc.

Perennial herb, rhizomatous. Stems several, up to 0.3 m high, lateral to basal rosette, simple below, harshly pubescent to softly pilose, leafy. Leaves: radical leaves up to 120 x 20 mm, oblanceolate, thick, leathery, base flat, petiole-like, half-clasping, margins pinnately cut, serrate or lobulate, upper surface glabrous to scabrid, lower surface glabrous to ± puberulous; cauline leaves smaller and narrower, base broad, half-clasping. Inflorescence a corymbose panicle. Capitula 1-6, radiate, disc and rays yellow, rays 8-13, long, spreading; involucre campanulate; bracts 14-20, 10-12 mm long; calyculus bracts very few, all with long, fine white hairs. Flowering time Jan.-Mar. Cypselae narrowly cylindrical, 4 mm long, closely ribbed, white-hispid.