Crepis dioscoridis, L.

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

54. C. dioscoridis L. , Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1133 (1763).

Annual or biennial; stems 10-60 cm, usually branched. Leaves glabrous or with sparse, eglandular hairs; basal 4-15 x 1-3 cm, lanceolate to oblanceolate, acute to obtuse, denticulate to pinnatifid, with 6-8 wide triangular lateral segments; cauline mostly sessile, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, denticulate, amplexicaul, with acute auricles. Involucre 8-12 x 5-9 mm; bracts linear to lanceolate, acute, with glandular and sometimes eglandular hairs, the outer 4-4 as long as the inner. Florets 11-18 mm. Ligules yellow, reddish-purple on outer face. Achenes 3 -5-5-5 mm, fusiform, curved, usually of 2 kinds: marginal greenish-yellow or whitish, with 2 lateral wings and usually ribbed; inner greenish-yellow or reddish-brown, with smooth or spinulose ribs; rarely all achenes unwinged. 2n = 8. • Greece, Albania and Aegean region', casual elsewhere in S. Europe and locally naturalized. Al Cr Gr [Ga?It?Ju].

A very polymorphic species; subspecies were described by Babcock, but on very limited material, and further information is required before their status can be confirmed.