General:
Perennial herb from a fibrous-rooted rhizome; stems ascending to erect, solitary to several, simple to few-branched, sparsely to densely white woolly-hairy, 2-30 cm tall.
Leaves:
Basal leaves thick, somewhat succulent, oblanceolate, elliptic or egg-shaped, stalked, 0.6-10 cm long including the stalk, 0.2-1 cm wide, entire, wavy, coarsely toothed or pinnately cut, sparsely to densely white woolly-hairy; stem leaves similar, few, oblanceolate to more linear, reduced and unstalked upwards.
Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, solitary to few at the tips of the branches, on white woolly-hairy stalks; involucres 4-8 mm tall; involucral bracts lanceolate, greenish to purplish throughout or more often purplish-tipped, white woolly-hairy, margins translucent; bracteoles few, purplish; ray flowers yellow, mostly 6-12 mm long; disk flowers yellow.
Fruits:
Achenes oblong, nerved, glabrous; pappus of white hairlike bristles.
If more than one illustration is available for a species (e.g., separate illustrations were provided for two subspecies) then links to the separate images will be provided below. Note that individual subspecies or varietal illustrations are not always available.
Illustration Source: The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Senecio ogotorukensis Packer