Pyrenean hawksbeard
Crepis pyrenaica
Synonyms: Hieracium pilosum, Crepis sibirica var. blattarioides, Hieracium pyrenaicum var. helveticum, Crepis austriaca var. grandidentata, Hapalostephium spinulosum, Lepicaune blattarioides, Hieracium aristatum, Crepis sibirica, Soyeria pyrenaica, Lepicaune multicaulis, Crepis amplexicaulis, Hieracium turbinatum, Catonia sagittata, Catonia blattarioides, Hieracium bracteatum, Hieracium picridoides, Crepis blattarifolia, Hapalostephium austriacum, Lepicaune turbinata, Hieracium denudatum, Hieracium conyzifolium, Soyeria blattarioides, Hieracium pyrenaicum var. austriacum, Hieracium blattarioides, Hieracium pyrenaicum var. blattarioides, Crepis blattarioides, Hapalostephium pilosum, Hapalostephium pyrenaicum, Hieracium blattarioides var. uniflorum, Hieracium blattarioides var. glabriusculum, Hieracium valdepilosum, Hieracium pyrenaicum var. pilosum, Crepis austriaca, Crepis foliosa, Hieracium helveticum, Hieracium pyrenaicum, Hieracium austriacum
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Botanical Description
Crepis pyrenaica, the Pyrenean hawksbeard or marsh hawk's-beard, is a perennial herb in the Asteraceae family native to the mountain meadows of central and southern Europe, including the Pyrenees, the Alps, the Apennines and the Carpathians. From a short rhizome it produces a basal rosette of obovate to oblanceolate, irregularly toothed or sinuate leaves and one or several erect, slightly branched flowering stems 30 to 80 centimetres tall, clothed with stem-clasping leaves that diminish upward. Each stem terminates in a few large flower heads borne in a loose corymb, each head 3 to 4 centimetres across and composed entirely of bright yellow strap-shaped (ligulate) ray florets, surrounded by an involucre of dark green, hairy bracts. The achenes are slender, ribbed and crowned with a soft white pappus. The plant inhabits damp subalpine pastures, tall-herb communities and streamside meadows on calcareous soils, generally between 1,200 and 2,200 metres elevation.
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