3377

Forb
Annual/Biennial

Non-native: Europe

Documented growing wild in - NC -

Common in NC Mountains, rare elsewhere

Look for it in pastures, roadsides, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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LEAVES:
Simple
Basal rosette & alternate

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

FRUIT:

 

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

• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p178

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Crepis capillaris   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crepis capillaris   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-11-003:
Crepis capillaris   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Crepis capillaris