Crepis intermedia

Intermediate hawksbeard

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Intermediate hawksbeard is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, California Ranges, northern and central Sierra Nevada, and Great Basin in dry slopes, ridges, and open forest at elevations of 800 to 3,300 meters. Flowering from May to July, this plant produces yellow flowers in clusters of 20 to 60 heads 10 to 16 millimeters long. Growing with 2 to 6 stems up to 60 centimeters tall, it has a stout, branched stem with a swollen woody base. Its basal leaves are large, up to 40 centimeters long, deeply pinnately lobed with narrowly triangular lobes, and covered in gray woolly tomentum. The fruit is 6 to 9 millimeters long with 10 to 12 ribs and a dusky white pappus.

Habitat: dry slopes, ridges, open forest

Bloom period: May-Jul

Elevation: 800-3300 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, n&ampc SN, GB

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.