Eremophilus:  Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this species.   perennial plants, usually with rootstocks; NOT annual plants with taproots tall plants, 3 dm high or more, often 1 m; NOT low plants no prominent tuft of basal leaves cauline leaves well developed, only gradually reduced upwards basal and stem leaves deeply pinnatifid, the lobes often toothed; basal leaves NOT dentate, basal leaves NOT shallowly lobed, leaves NOT triangular-lanceolate, leaves NOT dentate, leaves NOT subentire leaf-blades mostly 4 cm long or more; NOT less than 3 cm flower heads few to many; NOT solitary

 

Senecio: Answers to key questions in Budd's Flora and Flora of Alberta leading to this genus.  leaves alternate; NOT opposite involucral bracts uniseriate, equal, narrow, commonly with a few very much shorter outer ones at the base; NOT imbricate in two or more series, NOT broad, NOT somewhat leafy (Flora of Alberta) involucral bracts NOT imbricated flower head with florets both tubular and ray ray florets yellow; NOT blue, NOT purple, NOT white stamens united to form a tube around the pistil pappus composed of hairs; NOT composed of scales or bristles (Budd's Flora) pappus simple, the bristles sometimes unequal, but NOT distinctly divided into two lengths; pappus NOT double, NO outer series that is inconspicuous and very much shorter than the inner (Flora of Alberta)