Crepis aurea, (L.) Cass.

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9. C. aurea (L.) Cass. , Diet. Sci. Nat. 25: 88 (1822).

Stems 1-8, 2-30 cm, not or scarcely branched. Basal leaves 1-10 x 0-3-3 cm, obovate to oblanceolate, dentate to pinnatifid, glabrous or sparsely hairy; without cauline leaves. Involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, obtuse, the outer as long as inner. Ligules yellow or orange, with a reddish or reddish-purple outer face. Achenes 5-6 mm, pale brown, fusiform, rather strongly attenuate at apex, c. 16-ribbed. Meadows and pastures. • Alps, and mountains of Italy and S. & W. parts of Balkan peninsula. Al Au Ga Ge Gr He It Ju.

A very variable species, the following two subspecies being connected by many intermediates.