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Smooth Hawksbeard grows 1-2 feet tall (or more) and has leaves reminiscent of Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), but smaller. The flower heads also recall Dandelion, but are also much smaller. A typical plant has several stems, each with several strongly ascending branches, terminated by heads. The achenes (seeds) are beakless (contra C. vesicaria) and the stems lack stipitate glands (contra C. pulchra), per Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crepis capillaris   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Crepis capillaris

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Crepis capillaris

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-11-003:

Crepis capillaris   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)

Crepis capillaris

COMMON NAME:
Smooth Hawksbeard

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_crca3_001_lvd

        

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Crepis capillaris   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Crepis capillaris   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Crepis capillaris

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Crepis capillaris

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-11-003:
Crepis capillaris   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH Britton & Brown Illus Flora of Northeast US & adjacent Canada (Gleason, 1952)
Crepis capillaris