Crepis zacintha

Crepis zacintha, common name striped hawksbeard, is a plant species native to southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Albania, Bulgaria, etc.) but now naturalized on roadsides and other disturbed sites in Texas, Israel, Cyprus, and the United Kingdom.[3][4][5]

Striped hawksbeard
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Cichorieae
Genus: Crepis
Species:
C. zacintha
Binomial name
Crepis zacintha
(L.) Babc.
Synonyms[1][2]
  • Hedypnois zacintha (L.) Dum. Cours.
  • Lapsana zacintha L.
  • Rhagadiolus zacintha (L.) All.
  • Zacintha verrucosa Gaertn.

Crepis zacintha is an annual herb up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall, often branching above ground. Heads are solitary in the axils of branches. Each head has up to 30 ray florets, yellow with a reddish tinge on the back. There are no disc florets.[3][6][7][8][9][10]

References
  1. Tropicos
  2. The Plant List
  3. Flora of North America Crepis zacintha
  4. Flora of Israel Online, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Archived 2014-02-04 at Archive.today.
  5. Euro+Med Plantbase Project
  6. Linnaeus, Carl von. Species Plantarum 2: 811. 1753.
  7. Babcock, Ernest Brown. University of California Publications in Botany 19(11): 404. 1941.
  8. Allioni, Carlo. Flora Pedemontana 1: 227. 1785.
  9. Gaertner, Joseph. De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 2: 358, pl. 157, f. 7. 1791.
  10. Dumont de Courset, George(s) Louis Marie. Le Botaniste Cultivateur 2: 339. 1801.
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