Crepis intermedia

Crepis intermedia is a North American species of flowering plants in the daisy family known by the common name limestone hawksbeard. It is native to the Pacific Northwest, Columbia Plateau, Great Plains and Southwestern regions of western North America.[2][3]

Crepis intermedia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Cichorieae
Genus: Crepis
Species:
C. intermedia
Binomial name
Crepis intermedia
Synonyms[1]
  • Hieracioides intermedium (A.Gray) Kuntze
  • Psilochenia intermedia (A.Gray) W.A.Weber

Crepis intermedia grows in many types of open and forested habitat. It is a perennial herb growing an erect, multibranched stem from a thick taproot, reaching up to 70 centimeters (28 inches) in height. It has woolly green herbage. The leaves are lined with triangular lobes and the lowest leaves approach 40 centimeters (16 inches) long. The inflorescence is an open array of many ligulate flower heads, each with woolly phyllaries and several yellow ray florets but no disc florets. The fruit is a narrow, ribbed achene just under a centimeter long.[4][5]

References
  1. The Plant List, Crepis intermedia A.Gray
  2. Biotas of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  3. Calflora taxon report, University of California, Crepis intermedia A. Gray intermediate hawksbeard, limestone hawksbeard
  4. Flora of North America, Limestone or small-flower hawksbeard, Crepis intermedia A. Gray
  5. Gray, Asa. 1884. Synoptical Flora of North America 1(2): 432


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