Crepis runcinata ssp. hispidulosa
Robert L. Carr

Flora of Oregon

Plants 25–50 cm.

Stems glabrous to hispid or minutely spiculate, often glandular distally.

Leaves usually obovate, 6–25 × 2.5–8 cm, lower ½ entire to triangular-dentate, upper ½ sparingly denticulate, teeth not predominately whitetipped.

Heads 10–30.

Phyllaries lanceolate, tomentulose or glandular-hispid.

Fruits narrowed at apices, not tapering, brown.

Subalpine marshes, dry or moist alkaline meadows, irrigated fields and pastures. Flowering Jun–Jul. 800–1600 m. BR, BW, Lava. ID, WA; northeast to Alberta, east to WY, southeast to CO. Native.

Flora of North America

as described under Crepis runcinata ssp. hispidulosa

Plants 25-50 cm. Leaves: petioles narrowly winged; blades obovate, 2.5-8 cm wide, margins remotely toothed, pinnately lobed, or entire (teeth not prominently white-tipped, apices obtuse), faces glabrous or glandular-hispid. Heads 10-30. Involucres 8-12 mm. Phyllaries lanceolate, apices acute, faces strongly or finely glandular-hispid. Cypselae brown, 3.5-5 mm, not beaked; pappi 4-8 mm. 2n = 22.Flowering Jun-Jul. Dry or moist alkaline meadows; 1300-2500 m; Alta., Sask.; Colo., Idaho, Mont., N.Dak., Oreg., Utah, Wash., Wyo.Subspecies hispidulosa is distinguished by its relatively large, obtuse leaves and relatively numerous heads with glandular-hispid phyllaries.

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