Crepis occidentalis subsp. conjuncta

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Western hawksbeard is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, California Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada, and Warner Mountains on ridgetops and gravelly soils at elevations of 1,400 to 2,100 meters. Flowering from June to July, this plant produces yellow flowers in heads with 12 to 40 individual florets. Growing with woolly stems 5 to 20 centimeters tall, it has a distinctive low-growing form that spreads across gravelly terrain. Its leaves are deeply pinnately lobed, with narrow lobes spaced distinctively along the leaf surface, extending 10 to 18 centimeters in length. The fruit develops as a dark brown seed cluster, reflecting the plant's adaptation to rocky, high-elevation environments.

Habitat: Ridgetops, gravelly soils

Bloom period: Jun-Jul

Elevation: 1400-2100 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, n&ampc SNH, Wrn

California counties: Alpine, Mendocino, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tulare, Modoc, El Dorado, Humboldt, Trinity, Tuolumne, Ventura, Lassen, Sierra, Calaveras, Santa Barbara, Tehama, Butte, Glenn, Del Norte

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