Crepis nicaeensis, Balbis

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 : 355

58. C. nicaeensis Balbis in Pers., Syn. Pl. 2: 376 (1807).

Annual or biennial; stem 25-100 cm, branched from the middle or above. Leaves with yellow eglandular hairs; basal up to 19 x 4 cm, oblanceolate, obtuse, runcinate-pinnatifid, dentate, or finely and remotely denticulate, attenuate at base; lowest cauline like the basal, the rest mostly lanceolate, sessile, usually with auricles. Capitula in several corymbs. Involucre 8-10 x 4-6 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse, canescent-tomentose and with glandular or eglandular hairs, the outer 4-4(-4) as long as inner. Achenes 2-5-3- 8 x 0-6 mm, golden-brown, fusiform, 10-ribbed. 2zz = 8. W. & C. Mediterranean region', a frequent casual elsewhere in meadows and forage-crops, and naturalized in some regions. Al Ga Hs It Ju [Br *Bu Cz Da Ge Hu Rm Su].