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Crepis elegans

elegant hawksbeard
Habit Perennials, 6–30 cm (taproots deep, caudices stout).
Stems

5–20, erect or ascending (often reddish brown, in loose clumps), ± dichotomously branched distally, glabrous.
Leaves

basal and cauline; petiolate (petiole bases clasping);

blades spatulate or elliptic to ovate, 1–4 × 0.5–1.5 cm, margins coarsely dentate or entire, apices acute, faces glabrous.
Involucres

cylindric, 8–10 × 2–3 mm.
Florets

6–10;

corollas yellow, 6–8 mm.
Phyllaries

8–10, (blackish green) oblong, 8–10 mm, (margins scarious) apices acute or obtuse, faces glabrous.
Calyculi

of 7–8 (blackish green), ovate, glabrous bractlets 1–2 mm.
Heads

10–100+, in dense paniculiform arrays.
Cypselae

golden brown, fusiform (subterete or flattened), 4–5 mm, beaked (beaks delicate), ribs 10 (narrow, spiculate-roughened);

pappi white, 4–5 mm.
2n

= 14.

Crepis elegans
Phenology Flowering Jun–Sep.
Habitat Stream banks, gravelly flats, sandbars, roadsides
Elevation 1300–2000 m (4300–6600 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
AK; MT; WY; AB; BC; NT; ON; YT
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Discussion

Crepis elegans is recognized by its loose, cespitose habit, relatively small spatulate leaves, blackish green, glabrous phyllaries, and beaked cypselae. It is thought to be closely related to C. nana, and, possibly, derived from it (E. B. Babcock 1947).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 19, p. 228.
Parent taxa Asteraceae > tribe Cichorieae > Crepis
Sibling taxa
C. acuminata, C. atribarba, C. bakeri, C. barbigera, C. biennis, C. bursifolia, C. capillaris, C. foetida, C. intermedia, C. modocensis, C. monticola, C. nana, C. nicaeënsis, C. occidentalis, C. pannonica, C. pleurocarpa, C. pulchra, C. rubra, C. runcinata, C. setosa, C. tectorum, C. vesicaria, C. zacintha
Name authority Hooker: Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 297. (1833)
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