Crepis bakeri subsp. bakeri

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Baker's hawksbeard is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, Cascade Range, Sierra Nevada, and Modoc Plateau on dry open slopes at elevations of 550 to 1,900 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces pale yellow to white flowers in heads 2 to 13, with cylindric involucres 16 to 20 millimeters long in fruit. Growing with slender stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall, it forms a compact ground-hugging habit. Its leaves are 8 to 12 centimeters long, deeply lobed with lanceolate to elliptic lobes, with leaf surfaces covered in fine, soft tomentose hairs. The fruit is 8 to 10.5 millimeters long with a slightly tapered tip and a pappus 9 to 10.5 millimeters long.

Habitat: dry open slopes

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 550-1900 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaR, SNH, MP

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