[4] An annual, growing to 70 cm high and covered with glandular hairs.

The ray-florets are ligulate, yellow and at first spreading then rolled back.

[5] Locally common in Britain and Ireland on waste ground.

[5][6][7] According to the USDA Plants database, the species has also been introduced in the United States (Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Idaho, Alaska) and Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador).

[2] Senecio viscosus was first named and described by Carl von Linnaeus in 1753 in the book Species Plantarum.