NameThatPlant.net: Crepis pulchra

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crepis pulchra FAMILY Asteraceae_ Go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Smallflower Hawksbeard most resembles C. capillaris, but the stems have stipitate glands (vs. not stipitate in that species). Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crepis pulchra FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Crepis pulchra

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Crepis pulchra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-11-002:

Crepis pulchra FAMILY Asteraceae_

COMMON NAME:
Smallflower Hawksbeard

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image of Crepis pulchra, Smallflower Hawksbeard

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_crpu3_001_lvd

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crepis pulchra FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crepis pulchra FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Crepis pulchra

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Crepis pulchra

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-11-002:
Crepis pulchra FAMILY Asteraceae_

3376

Forb
Annual

Habitat: Roadsides, fields, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Eurasia

Common in Piedmont, uncommon in Mountains, rare in Coastal Plain

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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal & low alternate

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Absent
Inferior ovary
Ray flowers bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer?
Olive-brown
Nutlet

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p178

"Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyed -- chased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones. Few that fell trees plant them; nor would planting avail much towards getting back anything like the noble primeval forests. ... It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these Western woods -- trees that are still standing in perfect strength and beauty, waving and singing in the mighty forests of the Sierra. Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries ... God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools -- only Uncle Sam can do that." — John Muir

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