Senecio incanus, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 194

6. S. incanus L. , Sp. Pl. 869 (1753).

Perennial 5-15 cm, more or less densely greyish- or whitish-sericeous-lanate, with short, woody, branched stock. Stems erect, branched only in inflorescence. Leaves sericeous-lanate at least on lower surface (rarely subglabrous), the basal 3-10 cm, usually lobed or pinnatifid, long-petiolate, the cauline pinnatisect or (uppermost) simple. Capitula several, in a dense corymb. Involucral bracts 6-10, 5-6 mm; supplementary bracts 0-2, often on the peduncle below the involucre. Ligules 3-6, 5-6 mm, ovate, yellow. Achenes c. 2 mm, glabrous or hairy. Pastures and rocky ground on mountains', calcifuge. • Alps and N. Appennini', Carpathians. Au Cz Ga Ge He It Ju Po Rm Rs (W).