Crepis rubra
| Crepis rubra | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Asteraceae |
| Tribe: | Cichorieae |
| Genus: | Crepis |
| Species: | C. rubra |
| Binomial name | |
| Crepis rubra L. | |
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Synonymy
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Crepis rubra is a European species of flowering plant in the daisy family with the common name red hawksbeard[1] or pink hawk's-beard.[2] It is native to the eastern Mediterranean region (Italy, Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Asia Minor) and is widely cultivated as an ornamental. It become naturalized in a small region of the United States (Marin County just north of San Francisco Bay in California).[3][4][5]
Crepis rubra is an annual herb up to 40 cm (16 inches) tall. Each plant will usually produce only one or two flower heads, each with as many as 100 pink or red ray florets but no disc florets. It grows in rocky fields and waste places[6]
References
- ↑ "Crepis rubra". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 17 January 2016.
- ↑ "BSBI List 2007". Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2014-10-17.
- ↑ Altervista Flora Italiana, Radicchiella rosea, Pink Hawksbeard, Red Hawksbeard, Crépide rouge, roter Pippau, rosenfibbla, Crepis rubra L.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ↑ Peev, D., S. Stoyanov, M. Dalcheva, N. Valyovska. 2009. The pink flowering Crepis rubra, new for the Bulgarian flora. Phytologia Balcanica 15(1):59-62. includes photos and Bulgarian distribution map
- ↑ Flora of North America, Red hawksbeard Crepis rubra Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 806. 1753.
External links
- First Nature
- Associazione Micologica e Botanica, Funghi e Fiori in Italia in Italian with photos
- Greek Mountain Flora photo
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