Crepis pleurocarpa

Naked stemmed hawksbeard

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Naked stemmed hawksbeard is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, northern California Coast Ranges, California Ranges, and northern Sierra Nevada Foothills along streams in mixed-conifer forest and steep rocky slopes, often on serpentine at elevations of 400 to 2,200 meters. Flowering from June to August, this plant produces yellow flowers in small clusters with 7 to 10 heads. Growing 1.5 to 6 decimeters tall with stems generally branched near the base and slightly glabrous to woolly, it emerges from a slender woody taproot. Its basal leaves are 7 to 28 millimeters long, elliptic or oblanceolate, with pinnately lobed margins and often recurved remote lobes, while cauline leaves are much reduced and typically not lobed. The fruit is 5 to 8 millimeters long, nearly cylindric, deep red-brown with 10 prominent ribs and a beakless tip.

Habitat: Along streams in mixed-conifer forest, steep rocky slopes, often on serpentine

Bloom period: Jun-Aug

Elevation: 400-2200 m

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

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