General:
Perennial herb from a rhizome; stems erect or ascending, solitary, simple, glabrous or white woolly-hairy below becoming woolly-hairy above with purplish or brownish hairs, especially at flowering time, 3-25 cm tall.

Leaves:
Basal leaves oblanceolate to egg-shaped, stalked, 1-11 cm long, 0.2-2 cm wide, entire or saw-toothed, rounded to obtuse at the tips, glabrous to white woolly-hairy; stem leaves similar at the base, lanceolate, entire or toothed, reduced upwards.

Flowers:
Heads with ray and disk flowers, solitary with woolly-hairy bases, often with purplish or brownish multicellular hairs; involucres 7-12 mm tall; involucral bracts lance-oblong, abruptly sharp-pointed, green throughout or the tips purplish-tinged, margins translucent, sparingly or more often moderately to densely long-hairy with purplish or brownish multicellular hairs; bracteoles lacking; ray flowers yellow, mostly 5-17 mm long or sometimes lacking; disk flowers yellow.

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

Notes:
Douglas (1982) demonstrated that the infraspecific taxa treated by Hulten (1968) and Welsh (1974) are unworthy of recognition.

Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

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Illustration Source:  The Illustrated Flora of British Columbia

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Senecio atropurpureus (Ledeb.) Fedtsch.
Senecio kjellmanii