General:
Perennial herb from a fibrous-rooted, short, ascending or horizontal rhizome or woody stem-base; stems erect, solitary, branched above, glabrous to nearly glabrous, 20-70 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves heart-shaped, round, elliptic to egg-shaped or oblanceolate, stalked, 2-20 cm long including the stalk, 1-6 cm wide, toothed, lightly white woolly-hairy at first, soon becoming glabrous; stem leaves few, oblanceolate, raggedly toothed, progressively reduced upwards, becoming unstalked.

Flowers:
Heads few to many on hairy stalks in a clustered inflorescence; involucres 5-8 mm tall; involucral bracts lanceolate, sometimes purplish-tipped, glabrous to sparsely long-hairy, margins translucent; bracteoles few, inconspicuous, purplish-tipped; ray flowers yellow, mostly 6-10 mm long; disk flowers yellow.

Fruits:
Achenes oblong, glabrous; pappus of white hairlike bristles.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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 pauciflorus var. jucundulus Jeps.
Senecio pseudaureus Rydb.
Senecio pseudaureus subsp. pseudaureus Rydb.