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Crepis zacintha
Crepis zacintha, the 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.
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.
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 zacintha by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
