Crepis pulchra

Family: Asteraceae · Type: annual

Crepis pulchra is a naturalized annual herb found in disturbed, often grassy places, sometimes on serpentine soils, at low elevations from 20 to 200 meters. Flowering from May to June, this plant produces pale yellow flowers in flat-topped clusters with 10 to 40 heads. Growing with slender stems 15 to 50 centimeters tall that are sticky and glandular, particularly near the base, it has a delicate, spreading form. Its leaves are oblanceolate, ranging up to 24 centimeters long, with minutely toothed edges and sometimes recurved lobes, with lower leaves more deeply divided and upper leaves clasping the stem. The fruit is cylindrical, 4 to 6 millimeters long, with 10 to 12 distinct ribs and a slightly narrowed, beaked tip.

Habitat: Disturbed, often grassy places, sometimes serpentine

Bloom period: May-Jun

Elevation: 20-200 m

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