Crepis capillaris |
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smooth hawksbeard |
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Habit | Branched annual, 1-9 dm. tall, often covered with short, stiff, pointed yellow hairs throughout, with milky juice. | |
Leaves | Basal leaves petiolate, the blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, with fine teeth to pinnatifid, 3-30 cm. long and 5-45 mm. wide; cauline leaves reduced upward, becoming sessile, narrowly lanceolate, clasping and auriculate. |
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Flowers | Heads several or numerous, 20-60 flowered; involucre 5-8 mm. high, its inner bracts 8-16, white-woolly and often glandular-bristly with black hairs, becoming spongy-thickened on the back; outer bracts linear, less than half as long as the inner. |
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Fruits | Achenes tawny, 1.5-2.5 mm. long, tapered at both ends. |
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Crepis capillaris |
Asteraceae |
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Flowering time | May-November | |
Habitat | Roadsides, fields, ditches, wastelots, and other disturbed, open areas at low elevation. | |
Distribution | Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades crest and east in the Columbia River Gorge in Washington; Alaska to California, east across most of North America to the Atlantic Coast.
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Origin | Introduced from Europe | Native |
Conservation status | Not of concern | Not of concern |
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