Crepis conyzifolia, (Gouan) A. Kerner

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 : 349

16. C. conyzifolia (Gouan) A. Kerner , Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 22: 255 (1872)

(C. grandiflora (All.) Tausch , C. balcanica Velen. , C. trojanensis Urum. ).

Stems 12-50 cm, usually branched above. Leaves with short, pale eglandular hairs, sometimes more or less glandular-hairy, rarely glabrescent; basal 5-30 x 1—4(—5) cm, oblanceolate, acute or obtuse, runcinately denticulate to pinnatifid, rarely pinnatisect, narrowed at base to broadly winged petioles; lower cauline oblanceolate to lanceolate, dentate or denticulate, broadly petiolate or sessile; upper cauline oblong or lanceolate, amplexicaul, sagittate-auriculate, or bract-like. Capitula 1 -10. Involucre 10-20 x 8-20 mm; bracts lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, obtuse to acute, the outer unequal, c. i as long as inner, with greenish or yellowish eglandular hairs intermixed with shorter glandular hairs, sometimes more or less tomentose, rarely glabrescent, usually pubescent on inner face. Achenes 5-9 x 1-1- 25 mm, yellowish-brown, fusiform, nearly equally attenuate at both ends, 15- to 20-ribbed. 2л = 8. Meadows and pastures, calcifuge. Mountains of Europe, from S. C. France and the Carpathians southwards to the Pyrenees and S. W. Bulgaria. Al Au Bu Cz Ga Ge He Hs It Ju Po Rm Rs (W).

A very variable species, especially in degree of dissection of leaves and nature of the indumentum. Many segregate taxa have been described, some at specific rank.