Crepis atribarba
Crepis
dark hawksbeard, slender hawksbeard
crépis, hawksbeard
1–2, erect, slender, usually branched distal to middles, glabrous or tomentulose.
1–20+, erect to decumbent, simple (sometimes scapiform) or branched, usually striate, glabrous or hairy, often densely hispid or setose (hairs often stipitate-glandular).
basal and cauline; petiolate;
blades lanceolate to linear, 10–35 × 0.5–6 cm, margins deeply pinnately lobed (lobes narrowly lanceolate or linear, usually entire or toothed), apices acuminate, faces tomentulose to glabrate.
basal (often in rosettes) and cauline; petiolate (at least basal, petioles ± winged);
basal blades mostly elliptic, ovate, or lanceolate to linear, or spatulate to oblanceolate, often lyrate or runcinate, margins entire, dentate, serrate, toothed, or pinnately lobed, lobes sometimes toothed;
cauline usually present, lobed or entire, usually reduced in size and lobing distally.
not inflated distally, not bracteate.
cylindro-campanulate, 10–12 × 4–7 mm.
cylindric to campanulate (sometimes becoming turbinate in fruit), 4–15 mm diam.
flat or convex, usually pitted, glabrous or hairy, epaleate [paleate, paleae narrow, thin].
6–35;
corollas yellow, 10–18 mm.
5–100+;
corollas usually yellow or orange, sometimes white, pink, or reddish.
8–13, lanceolate, 10–12 mm (margins yellow, scarious, eciliate), apices acute, abaxial faces usually tomentulose, sometimes glabrous, often with coarse, green or blackish setae, adaxial glabrous or with fine, appressed hairs.
5–18 in 1–2 series, lanceolate, equal or subequal, (bases becoming thickened and keeled, keels sometimes pronounced in fruit) margins green to yellowish, often scarious, apices acute to acuminate, abaxial faces glabrous, tomentose, or setose, sometimes stipitate-glandular, adaxial glabrous or with appressed hairs.
of 5–10, narrowly triangular to lanceolate, tomentose bractlets 1–3 mm.
of 5–12, reduced, subulate to lanceolate or deltate bractlets in ± 1 series, mostly unequal, glabrous, tomentulose, or setose.
3–30, in corymbiform arrays.
(erect) usually in cymiform, corymbiform, or paniculiform arrays, sometimes borne singly.
dark or blackish green, subcylindric, 3–10 mm, apices tapered, not beaked, ribs 12–15 (distinct);
pappi whitish, 5–9 mm.
monomorphic or dimorphic, yellow, brown, green, red, and/or black, subcylindric or fusiform, terete or subterete, usually curved, apices tapered or beaked, ribs 10–20, sometimes spiculate-roughened, faces glabrous or hispidulous;
pappi persistent or falling, of 80–150, usually distinct, sometimes basally connate, white to tawny, coarse to fine, ± equal (or outer shorter), barbellulate bristles in 1–2 series.
= 3, 4, 5, 6, 11.
= 22, 33, 44, 55, 88.
Crepis atribarba
Crepis
Crepis atribarba is generally recognized by the deeply pinnately lobed leaves with linear lobes, fine tomentulose indument on stems and leaves, setose phyllaries, and dark green, strongly ribbed cypselae. It is a variable mixture that includes polyploid, apomictic forms and hybrids with C. acuminata and other species. The typical form is recognized by its short stature, narrow pinnately lobed, tomentulose leaves, stems with 3–10 heads, and phyllaries with scattered, black, eglandular setae. Larger, more robust forms with stems 30–70 cm, 10–30+ heads, narrower involucres, and few or no black setae have been recognized as subsp. originalis. The latter was considered by E. B. Babcock (1947) to represent the original diploid form of the species; it is difficult to distinguish in practice.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Species ca. 200 (24 in the flora).
Crepis is generally recognized by the rosettes of coarse, often pinnately lobed leaves, erect heads, epaleate receptacles, calyculate involucres, yellow corollas, subcylindric or fusiform, ribbed cypselae, and pappi of barbellulate bristles. The taxonomy and evolutionary relationships of Crepis were studied by E. B. Babcock (1947) and his associates. Their work was thorough and important because of the effort to incorporate cytogenetic information in the evolutionary analysis. Extensive survey of chromosome number and karyotype indicated two major ploidy groups in Crepis, corresponding to New World and Old World species complexes. Of the 12 species of Crepis native to North America, 10 are polyploids with x = 11. The core diploid populations commonly occupy discrete ecologic zones and are thought to be entirely distinct from one another, yet they are interconnected by a continuous complex series of intergrading polyploid forms that are partly or completely apomictic (Babcock). The polyploids are of two forms, autopolyploids that are similar to the diploids, and allopolyploids that combine the characteristics of two or more diploid species. The allopolyploid forms of hybrid origin may exhibit the characteristics of multiple parental species and therefore are difficult to classify. Some of the heterogeneous apomictic populations, or groups of populations, have been grouped together and recognized as subspecies; those taxa are often difficult to identify and further study is clearly needed. Despite these difficulties, the subspecific taxa of Babcock were tentatively included in the present study. The Old World species are mostly diploid (n = 3, 4, 5, or 6). Babcock concluded that there was a progressive decrease in the chromosome numbers, from n = 6 to n = 3. Along with the decrease is a corresponding increase in chromosome asymmetry and reduction in chromosome length.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Annuals or biennials (perennials; taproots usually shallow) | → 2 |
1. Perennials (taproots and caudices becoming woody) | → 11 |
2. Stems branched (dichotomously, heads sessile in axils); phyllaries lanceolate (inner becoming indurate, often enclosing and partially fused to cypselae) | C. zacintha |
2. Stems branched (not dichotomously); phyllaries lanceolate to lance-linear (free from cypselae) | → 3 |
3. Cypselae not beaked (apices sometimes ± narrowed) | → 4 |
3. Cypselae (at least inner) beaked | → 8 |
4. Stems (at least proximally) hispid and stipitate-glandular (viscid) | C. pulchra |
4. Stems glabrate, glabrescent, hispid, ± setose, tomentose, or tomentulose (not viscid) | → 5 |
5. Adaxial faces of phyllaries ± appressed-hairy (hairs white, shiny, 0.1–0.2+ mm) | → 6 |
5. Adaxial faces of phyllaries glabrous | → 7 |
6. Annuals; abaxial faces of phyllaries tomentose to hispidulous; cypselae reddish or purplish brown, 3–4 mm; pappi 4–5 mm | C. tectorum |
6. Biennials; abaxial faces of phyllaries ± canescent-tomentose; cypselae yellowish or reddish brown, 4–7 mm; pappi 5–7 mm | C. biennis |
7. Involucres 5–8 mm; phyllaries glandular-setose (setae black, in 2 rows); cypselae 1.5–2.5 mm | C. capillaris |
7. Involucres 8–10 mm; phyllaries glabrous or glabrate; cypselae 2.5–4 mm | C. nicaeensis |
8. Cypselae dimorphic | → 9 |
8. Cypselae usually monomorphic | → 10 |
9. Stems scapiform; heads 1–2 (borne singly); corollas pink or white | C. rubra |
9. Stems branched; heads 3–10+; corollas mostly yellow, usually reddish purple abaxially | C. foetida |
10. Stems coarsely setose or hispid (setae yellowish); calyculi of 10–14 bractlets (not reflexed); cypselae reddish brown, beaks 1–2 mm | C. setosa |
10. Stems glabrate or hispid and/or tomentose, sometimes sparsely setose (setae black); calyculi of 5–12 bractlets (reflexed); cypselae pale brown or yellowish, beaks 2–5 mm | C. vesicaria |
11. Plants glabrous | → 12 |
11. Plants usually ± hairy, sometimes glabrous | → 14 |
12. Stems arcuate or decumbent, scapiform; heads 2–3; cypselae beaked (beak lengths nearly 2 times bodies) | C. bursifolia |
12. Stems ± erect or ascending, usually branched; heads 5–10(–100); cypselae seldom beaked (beaks relatively short) | → 13 |
13. Stems in dense clumps (plants often rhizomatous), simple or branched proximally; leaves 2–9 × 0.5–2.5 cm; involucres 8–13 mm; cypselae subcylindric to fusiform, apices sometimes tapered or narrowed, not beaked, ribs 10–13, broad, smooth; alpine habitats | C. nana |
13. Stems in loose clumps (plants taprooted, roots vertical), branched dichotomously distally; leaves 1–4 × 0.5–1.5 cm; involucres 8–10 mm; cypselae fusiform, apices beaked (beaks 1–2 mm), ribs 10, narrow, minutely spiculate- roughened; stream banks, gravel bars | C. elegans |
14. Leaves usually entire or weakly dentate, sometimes closely dentate, serrate, or pinnately lobed | → 15 |
14. Leaves usually pinnately lobed or sharply serrate | → 16 |
15. Stems scapiform; leaves mostly basal (rosettes), cauline leaves reduced; involucres turbinate-campanulate, 10–12 × 8–12 mm | C. runcinata |
15. Stems branched distally; leaves mostly cauline (blades broadly oblanceolate to elliptic); involucres cylindro-campanulate, 10–15 × 6–12 mm | C. pannonica |
16. Stems usually densely setose, stipitate-glandular (setae 1–3 mm) | C. monticola |
16. Stems usually tomentose or tomentulose, sometimes glabrate or bristly-setose (setae or hairs to 1 mm) | → 17 |
17. Phyllaries tomentose to tomentulose and/or setose (setae blackish, green, or whitish); cypselae dark to olive, greenish, or reddish brown, yellowish, or blackish, weakly ribbed or striate | → 18 |
17. Phyllaries usually glabrous, tomentose or tomentulose, sometimes stipitate-glandular or sparsely setose (setae black); cypselae yellowish or reddish brown or dark to blackish green, distinctly ribbed | → 19 |
18. Plants 5–35 cm; heads 1–9; involucres 11–21 × 5–10 mm; phyllaries densely tomentose or setose | C. modocensis |
18. Plants 20–80 cm; heads 15–20+; involucres 9–17 × 4–7 mm; phyllaries tomentulose and coarsely green-setose | C. barbigera |
19. Phyllaries 5–8; florets 5–10(–15) | → 20 |
19. Phyllaries 7–18; florets 6–40 | → 21 |
20. Heads 7–10(–30) in corymbiform arrays; phyllaries densely tomentulose near margins (strongly keeled, medians usually glabrous); cypselae reddish brown | C. pleurocarpa |
20. Heads 30–70(–100+) in compound, corymbiform arrays; phyllaries usually glabrous, sometimes evenly tomentose (not strongly keeled); cypselae yellowish or brown | C. acuminata |
21. Leaf lobes narrowly lanceolate or linear; cypselae dark or blackish green, apices tapered, not beaked | C. atribarba |
21. Leaf lobes deltate or broadly lanceolate; cypselae yellowish or brownish, apices narrowed to strongly tapered | → 22 |
22. Plants 25–60 cm; heads (10–)20–60, in ± flat-topped, compound, corymbiform arrays; involucres narrowly cylindric, 3–5 mm diam.; florets 7–12 | C. intermedia |
22. Plants 8–40 cm; heads (1–)2–22, in corymbiform, cymiform, or paniculiform arrays; involucres cylindric, 5–15 mm diam.; florets 9–40. | → 23 |
23. Stems hispid, sometimes stipitate-glandular distally; leaves: faces gray-tomentose; phyllaries sometimes stipitate-glandular | C. occidentalis |
23. Stems sparsely to densely tomentose, often stipitate-glandular proximally; leaves: faces sparsely to densely tomentose, stipitate-glandular (midribs red in fresh specimens): phyllar- ies conspicuously stipitate-glandular | C. bakeri |
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