''Youngia'' is a genus of Asian plants in the tribe

Cichorieae The Cichorieae (also called Lactuceae) are a tribe in the plant family Asteraceae that includes 93 genera, more than 1,600 sexually reproductive species and more than 7,000 apomictic species. They are found primarily in temperate regions of the E ...

within the family

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. There are several weedy species in the genus as well as the endangered '' Youngia nilgiriensis'' from

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in southern

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, and '' Youngia japonica'', which is also known as Japanese hawkweed. ''Youngia'' was first described in 1831 by H. Cassini, and the genus was later united with ''

Crepis ''Crepis'', commonly known in some parts of the world as hawksbeard or hawk's-beard (but not to be confused with the related genus ''Hieracium'' with a similar common name), is a genus of annual and perennial flowering plants of the family Aster ...

''. Taxonomic and cytogenetic studies by E. B. Babcock and G. Ledyard Stebbins led to the reclassification of the genus in the 1930s.Koh Nakamura et al., 2012. Extreme habitats that emerged in the Pleistocene triggered divergence of weedy ''Youngia'' (Asteraceae) in Taiwan. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63: 486–499. ; SpeciesFlann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist search for ''Youngia''
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Asteraceae genera Taxa named by Henri Cassini {{Cichorieae-stub