Senecio nebrodensis, 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 : 203

52. S. nebrodensis L. , Sp. Pl. ed. 2,1217 (1763)

( S. duriaei Gay ).

Glandular-hairy perennial up to 50 cm, viscid in inflorescence, with erect, rather narrowly branching, deeply striate stems. Lowest leaves petiolate, withering early; cauline leaves up to 10 cm, sessile, amplexicaul, sinuate-pinnatifid with wide, often toothed lobes. Capitula (15-)2O-25 mm in diameter, laxly corymbose on long peduncles. Involucral bracts 10-12 mm, linear, more or less densely glandular-hairy; supplementary bracts 1 or 2, 2-4 mm; all bracts concolorous. Ligules 15-20, 6-8 mm, yellow, revolute soon after anthesis. Achenes c. 2-5 mm, hairy. Rocky places. • Mountains of Spain. Hs.

Said by Linnaeus to grow in Sicilia also, but apparently in error.