Spotted brocade is an annual herb, with a height of about 15 to 25 cm. It contains white milk. Its branches are thin and soft, with lavender on the surface and white soft hair.
Senecio is a perennial evergreen herb with a high height, which can reach more than 1 meter. The plant and branches are relatively smooth, without the distribution of small hairs, and the color is relatively green.
The leaves of Parthenocissus are relatively small, showing a long oval shape, about 5 to 8 mm in length, about 2 to 3 mm in width, with small fine teeth distributed on the edge, dark green on the top, white pubescence on the bottom, short petioles, about 1 mm in length or almost none.
The leaves of Senecio are thick and soft in texture. There are two kinds of leaf shapes. One is linear lanceolate with a length of about 4mm and a width of less than 1mm. The other is rectangular or quasi circular.