Crepis foliosa, Babcock

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

59. C. foliosa Babcock , Univ. Calif. Pubi. Bot. 23: 389 (1951).

Annual; glandular-pubescent throughout; stems up to 25 cm, remotely and regularly branched from the base. Basal leaves up to 9 x 2 cm, few, oblanceolate or spathulate, long-petiolate; lowest cauline oblanceolate, shortly petiolate, auriculate; upper cauline lanceolate, acuminate, dentate, sessile, amplexicaul, auriculate, the auricles about as long as the width of the lamina and narrow and acuminate. Involucre 7-8 x 4-5 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, tomentulose and with unequal, brown glandular hairs; outer bracts c. 4 as long as the inner. Achenes c. 2-75 x 0-5 mm, pale brown, fusiform, 10- ribbed. • C. Ural (Utka, near Krasnoufimsk). Rs (C).

A very distinctive species known only from the original collection of 1892.