Crepis geracioides

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 : 347

2. C. geracioides Hausskn. , Mitt. Thür. Bot. Ver. nov. ser., 7: 52 (1895).

Stems 35-75 cm. Basal leaves up to 24x 6 cm, obovate to oblanceolate, obtuse to acute, deeply runcinate-pinnatifid or sublyrate, gradually attenuate into a narrowly winged petiole, shortly hairy on the margin and veins, glabrescent; lower cauline leaves like the basal but more or less amplexicaul; upper cauline lanceolate or linear and entire, or bract-like. Capitula 1-4; peduncles very long, stout, erect. Involucre 11-13 x 5-10 mm; bracts narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, with numerous eglandular hairs, the outermost not more than $ as long as the inner. Achenes 5-5-6-5 x 1 mm, pale brown, fusiform, the marginal strongly curved near the base, the inner nearly straight, c. 30-striate. 2n = 12. Damp places. • Mountains of Albania and N. Greece. Al Gr.