Crepis pulchra, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 353

47. C. pulchra L. , Sp. Pl. 806 (1753).

Annual; stems (5-)3O-70-(-100) cm, branched from the base. Leaves with short glandular and longer eglandular hairs; basal (l-)3-15(-24) x (0-5-)1-3(—5) cm, rosulate, oblanceolate, acute to obtuse, narrowed at base, denticulate to runcinate-dentate or pinnatifid, with triangular, acute lobes; lower cauline like the basal but lanceolate and less divided; upper cauline linear or bract-like. Capitula in a compound corymb. Involucre 8-11 (—12) x 3-6 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, the outer very short, glabrous. Achenes uniform (all like the inner), or of 2 kinds: marginal 5-6 mm, somewhat compressed, more or less attenuate at apex, spinulose, usually without pappus; inner 4-4-5(-5) mm, cylindrical, more or less attenuate at apex, usually striate, with a pappus. 2n = 8. Dry, open habitats. S. Europe, extending northwards to N. France and S.E. Czechoslovakia', casual further north. Al Bu Cz Ga Ge Gr Hs Hu It Ju Lu Rm Rs (K) Tu.