General:
Perennial herb from a short, rhizome-like woody stem-base; stems erect, solitary or few, simple or rarely few-branched above, white woolly-hairy becoming long-hairy with whitish or yellowish multicellular hairs above, 3-30 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves thickish, oblanceolate to egg-shaped, stalked, 2-10 cm long including short stalks, 3-35 mm wide, often irregularly toothed, woolly-hairy or these hairs deciduous and underlain with flattened multicellular hairs; stem leaves similar, gradually reduced upwards, lanceolate to oblong, sometimes toothed, woolly as in the basal leaves, unstalked.

Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, solitary or rarely 2-4 at the ends of branches on densely white-woolly stalks with yellowish multicellular hairs; involucres 6-12 mm tall; involucral bracts linear to lance-shaped, purplish throughout, woolly to hairless or hairy with yellowish multicellular hairs; bracteoles lacking; ray flowers orange-yellow, mostly 8-25 mm long.

Fruits:
Achenes oblong, nerved, stiff-hairy; pappus of white hairlike bristles.

Notes:
Although T.M. Barkley previously considered S. fuscatus as synonymous with the E Asian S. tundricola (Douglas 1982), he recently (Barkley 1994) excluded the latter from the North American flora and resurrected S. fuscatus.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Senecio bivestitus Cronquist
Senecio fuscatus auct. non Hayek
Senecio lindstroemii (Ostenf.) A.E. Porsild
Senecio tundricola auct. non Tolm.
Tephroseris tundricola var. lindstroemii (Ostenf.) V. Yu.