Crepis runcinata

Crepis runcinata is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common name fiddleleaf hawksbeard. It is native to western and central Canada (from British Columbia to Manitoba), the western and central United States (from the Pacific as far east as Minnesota, Iowa, western Kansas and northwestern Texas) and northern Mexico (Chihuahua).[2]

Crepis runcinata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Cichorieae
Genus: Crepis
Species:
C. runcinata
Binomial name
Crepis runcinata
(James) Torr. & A.Gray
Synonyms[1]

Crepis runcinata grows in many types of habitats. It is a variable species with many subspecies. In general it is a perennial herb growing an erect, hairless, mostly leafless, unbranching stem up to about 80 centimeters (32 inches) tall from a taproot. The hairless leaves are arranged about the base of the plant in a rosette, each somewhat narrowly oval with many toothlike triangular lobes or sometimes lacking lobes. The inflorescence produces flower heads with hairy, glandular phyllaries and many yellow ray florets but no disc florets. The fruit is a small achene with a pappus.[3][4]

Subspecies[1][3]

References
  1. The Plant List, Crepis runcinata (E.James) Torr. & A.Gray
  2. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  3. Flora of North America, Crepis runcinata (E. James) Torrey & A. Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 2: 487. 1843.
  4. Wooton, Elmer Ottis & Paul Carpenter Standley. 1913. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 16(4): 176 as Crepis neomexicana


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