''Crepis pulchra'' is a
European species of flowering plant in the family
Asteraceae with the common name smallflower hawksbeard.
[ It is widespread across much of Europe as well as in Morocco, Algeria, and western and central Asia. It has also become naturalized in the parts of the United States and in the Canadian Province of Ontario.Tela Botanica, Crépide élégante, ''Crepis pulchra'' L.]
in French with color photos and French distribution map
''Crepis pulchra'' is an
annual herb up to 100 cm (40 inches) tall. One plant can produce as many as 40
flower heads
A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"; ) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, compos ...
, each with as many as 30 yellow
ray florets but no
disc florets.
[Flora of North America, Smallflower hawksbeard, ''Crepis pulchra'' Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 806. 1753. ]
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;Subspecies[The Plant List ''Crepis pulchra'' L. ]
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* ''Crepis pulchra'' subsp. ''pulchra''
* ''Crepis pulchra'' subsp. ''turkestanica'' Babc.
References
External links
Discover Life
photos
Czech Botany, ''Crepis pulchra'' L. – škarda sličná / škarda úhľadná
in Czech with photos
photo os herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Missouri USA
pulchra
Flora of Europe
Flora of North Africa
Flora of Central Asia
Flora of Western Asia
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
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