Crepis praemorsa, (L.) Tausch

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 : 352-353

43. C. praemorsa (L.) Tausch , Flora (Regensb.) 11 (Ergänz. 1): 79 (1828).

Stems 15-75 cm. Leaves 5-20 x O-8-5- 5 cm, all basal, obovate, oblanceolate, elliptical, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse,

acute or apiculate, abruptly or gradually contracted at base, entire or obscurely denticulate to repand-dentate, with dense, very short, pale hairs or glabrescent. Involucre 7-12 x 3-7 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, the outer as long as the inner. Achenes 3-5-5 mm, pale brown, fusiform, c. 20-ribbed. Most of Europe eastwards from S.E. Norway and S.E. France, but absent from the Mediterranean region. Al Au Bu Cz Da Fe Ga Ge He Hu It Ju No Po Rm Rs (N, B, C, W, E) Su.

1 Ligules pink or white (c) subsp. dinarica

1 Ligules yellow

2 Capitulain a narrow, elongatedcyme;achenes3-4 mm (a) subsp. praemorsa

2 Capitulain a lax,oftensubcorymbosecyme;achenes4 -5-5

mm (b) subsp. corymbosa