Crepis foetida
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 807 (1753) subsp. foetida.
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Stinking hawksbeard, foetid hawksbeard.
Description:
Annual herb 10-50 cm high, sometimes persisting as a biennial with a woody tap root; stems erect, densely divaricate-branched, glandular-pubescent, striate; basal leaves oblanceolate, obtuse to acute, attenuate at the base, 4-13 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, denticulate to runcinate-pinnatisect with denticulate margins, scabrous, usually forming a rosette; cauline leaves elliptic to narrowly lanceolate, amplexicaul with acuminate auricles, progressively reduced to linear bracts c. 1 cm long.
Capitula 1-3 terminating each branch, on peduncles 1-9 cm long, with 1 or 2 minute bracteoles; involucres 9-12 mm long, 5-7 mm diam.; outer bracts unequal, up to half as long as the inner ones, narrowly lanceolate, loosely appressed; inner bracts dull-green, slightly tomentose and with large glandular hairs, glabrous on the inner face, entire; receptacle hairy; florets 25-50; ligules narrowly oblong, 6-9 mm long, reddish below.
Marginal achenes fusiform, slightly curved, 12-18-ribbed, 7-9 mm long, glabrous, dark-brown, beakless or shortly beaked; inner achenes similar, 12-17 mm long, including a filiform beak 6-10 mm long; pappus bristles 2-seriate, 5-7 mm long, subequal, cream, persistent.
Published illustration:
Ross-Craig (1962) Drawings Brit. Pl. 17:t. 31.
Distribution:
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Localised on roadsides, paddocks, gardens and other disturbed sites.
W. Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic. Native to Europe and south-western Asia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Nov. — Dec.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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