Senecio cordatus, Koch

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 : 201

41. S. cordatus Koch , Flora (Regensb.) 17: 613 (1834)

( S. alpinus auct., non Scop.).

Perennial 30-70 cm. Stems erect, usually branched only in inflorescence, leafy throughout, subglabrous. Leaves very gradually decreasing in size up the stem; basal and lower cauline 5-15 x 3-10 cm, ovate, cordate or rounded at the base, petiolate, sometimes with a pair of small lobes on the petiole, glabrous above, more or less greyish-arachnoidtomentose beneath, strongly dentate or crenate-dentate, or doubly dentate; upper cauline ovate to ovate-lanceolate, narrowed at base, dentate, crenate-dentate or doubly dentate, sometimes subpinnatifid at base. Capitula (3-)5-20, 25-40 mm in diameter, in a corymb. Involucre 6-8 mm, arachnoid-lanate or subglabrous, with 5-10 supplementary bracts c. | as long as the involucre. Ligules 12-21, 10-15 mm, yellow or orange-yellow. Achenes c. 3 -5 mm, glabrous. 2л = 40. Meadows, open woods and damp places. • Alps; N. & C. Appennini. Au Ga Ge He It?Ju.