Crepis elegans Hooker (Q5417)

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Crepis elegans is a synonym of Askellia elegans (Hooker) W.A. Weber
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Crepis elegans Hooker
Crepis elegans is a synonym of Askellia elegans (Hooker) W.A. Weber

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    taxon/id/Crepis elegans Hooker
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    Elegant hawksbeard (English)
    Flowering Jun–Sep.
    stream banks
    gravelly flats
    sandbars
    roadsides
    1300–2000 m
    Stems 5–20, erect or ascending (often reddish-brown, in loose clumps), ± dichotomously branched distally, glabrous.
    petiolate (petiole bases clasping);
    blades spatulate or elliptic to ovate, 1–4 × 0.5–1.5 cm, margins coarsely dentate or entire, apices acute, faces glabrous.
    Heads 10–100+, in dense paniculiform arrays.
    Calyculi of 7–8 (blackish green), ovate, glabrous bractlets 1–2 mm.
    Involucres cylindric, 8–10 × 2–3 mm.
    Phyllaries 8–10, (blackish green) oblong, 8–10 mm, (margins scarious) apices acute or obtuse, faces glabrous.
    corollas yellow, 6–8 mm.
    Cypselae golden brown, fusiform (subterete or flattened), 4–5 mm, beaked (beaks delicate), ribs 10 (narrow, spiculate-roughened);
    pappi white, 4–5 mm. 2n = 14.