Senecio retrorsus Dc.

Perennial herb with a stout woody stock, glabrous except for the woolly crown and woolly hairs hidden in the leaf axils, flowering stems up to c. 60 cm tall, solitary, either simple below the inflorescence branches or branching from near the base, leafy. Leaves up to 15 x 1,5(-4) cm, mostly crowded on the lower part of the stem then more distant and decreasing in size upwards, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, occasionally more or less elliptic, the lowermost sometimes oblanceolate, apex acute to acuminate, base more or less cordate and half-clasping or broad and minutely eared, margins thickened, distantly callose-denticulate or subentire, those of the upper leaves often rolled under, the leaves then becoming long-acuminate, leathery, side nerves sharply ascending but scarcely visible. Heads radiate, many on sparsely bracteate peduncles corymbose-paniculately arranged. Involucre turbinate, bracts (5-)8, (3.6-)4-5(-6) mm long, much shorter than the disc, broad, flat, nerves resinous, calyculus wanting or 1 or 2 small bracts. Rays 2-5, they and the disc bright yellow. Achenes c. 3.5 mm, ribbed, glabrous.

It is a Mediterranean plant. It can grow in arid places.

The leaves are cooked and eaten as a spinach.