Crepis occidentalis

Crepis occidentalis

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Tribe:	Cichorieae
Genus:	Crepis
Species:	C. occidentalis
Binomial name
*Crepis occidentalis* Nutt.
Synonyms^[1]
Berinia occidentalis (Nutt.) Sch.Bip. Hieracioides occidentale (Nutt.) Kuntze Psilochenia occidentalis (Nutt.) Nutt. Crepis grandifolia Greene, syn of subsp. costata Crepis pumila Rydb., syn of subsp. pumila

Crepis occidentalis is a North American species of flowering plant in the daisy family known by the common names western hawksbeard,^[2]^:119 or largeflower hawksbeard. It is native to western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan) and the western United States (from the Pacific to the western Great Plains).

Crepis occidentalis grows in many types of habitat. It is a perennial herb growing a grayish woolly branching stem to about 40 centimeters (16 inches) in height from a deep taproot. The woolly, toothed leaves are up to 30 centimeters (12 inches) long at the base of the plant. The inflorescence produces several clusters of flower heads with hairy, often glandular phyllaries and many yellow ray florets but no disc florets. The fruit is a ribbed achene with a frilly pappus at the tip.^[3]

Subspecies^[1]^[3]

Crepis occidentalis subsp. conjuncta Babcock & Stebbins - California, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming
Crepis occidentalis subsp. costata (A.Gray) Babc. & Stebbins - British Columbia, Saskatchewan, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
Crepis occidentalis subsp. occidentalis - Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, New Mexico, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, Washington., Wyoming
Crepis occidentalis subsp. pumila (Rydb.) Babc. & Stebbins - British Columbia; California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington

References

1 2 The Plant List, Crepis occidentalis Nutt.
↑ Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, Morris Book Publishing LLC., ISBN 0-7627-3805-7
1 2 Flora of North America, Gray or western hawksbeard, Crepis occidentalis Nuttall, J. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia. 7: 29. 1834.

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