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Crepis pleurocarpa
Also called Naked Hawk's Beard
Nakedstem hawksbeard is a perennial wildflower from the western United States with yellow dandelion-like flowers, grown mainly as a native wildflower rather than a common garden plant. It needs sun, well-drained soil and little water once established.
Crepis pleurocarpa is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name nakedstem hawksbeard. It is native to the western United States (Washington, Oregon, northern California and western Nevada).
Crepis pleurocarpa grows in dry, wooded or open habitat, sometimes on serpentine soils. It is a taprooted perennial herb producing a branching stem up to 60 cm (24 in) in height. The lance-shaped leaves are lobed and long near the base of the plant, approaching 30 cm (12 in) in length, and smaller and sometimes unlobed higher up the stem. The inflorescence is an open array of many flower heads, each having pointed phyllaries with thick midribs and thinner, hair-lined edges. Each flower head has 5 to 8 golden yellow ray florets, but no disc florets. The fruit is a narrow, ribbed achene with a whitish pappus.
Tapertip hawksbeard · Slender hawksbeard · Crepis auriculifolia · Baker's hawksbeard · Bearded Hawk's Beard · Rough hawksbeard · Italian hawksbeard · Smooth hawksbeard · Crepis czerepanovii · Stinking hawksbeard · Crepis incana · Limestone hawksbeard
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Crepis pleurocarpa by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
