Common name:
Smooth hawksbeard
Family:
Scientific name:
Crepis capillaris
Main flower color:
Range:
Across most of the UK; less common only in high elevation regions
Height:
Up to 80 cm
Habitat:
Dry grassland, roadsides, waste ground, old walls
Flowers:
In loose, branched clusters. Flowerheads are up to 2 cm wide, with all-yellow florets above an urn-shaped involucre lined by two rows of bracts, all pressed against the surface. The surfaces of the bracts have a sparse covering of short, bristly hairs
Leaves:
Hairless, shiny, oblanceolate, up to 15 cm long, lined with narrow pinnate lobes, relatively well-separated. Stem leaves have clasping, arrow-shaped bases
Season:
June to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
