Crepis leontodontoides, All.

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21. C. leontodontoides All. , Auct. FI. Pedem. 13 (1789).

Perennial or biennial. Stems 1-8, 10-40 cm, remotely branched. Leaves glabrous, or slightly canescent-tomentose, or with eglandular hairs especially along the veins; basal 3-25 x 0-5-5-5 cm, oblanceolate, acute to obtuse, runcinately dentate or runcinate-pinnatifid, narrowed into a petiole; cauline all much reduced or bract-like, or the lower like the basal. Involucre 7-8 x 2-5-6 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse, the outer as long as inner, slightly tomentose or glabrous, sometimes glandular-hairy ( var. preslii Nicotra ). Ligules sometimes reddish-purple on outer face. Achenes 3-5-5 x 0-4-0-6 mm, brown, fusiform, sometimes beaked, 10-ribbed. In = 10. Dry places. • C. Mediterranean region. Al Co Ga It *Ju Sa Si.