Scientific name: Crepis capillaris (L.) Wallr.
Common name: Smooth Hawk's-beard
Description
Habit: Annual or biennial, to 75 cm high.
Stems: Rather slender, hairless or slightly hairy, sometimes reddish at base.
Leaves: Mostly basal, linear-oblong and pinnatifid or toothed.
Flowers: Yellow, flower heads 12-20 mm across and small, in a loose, corymbose panicle; involucral bracts hairless on their inner surface, and with short (less than 1 mm) or no hairs on the outer surface; florets all ligulate.
Fruits: An achene, 2.5 mm long, without a beak, pappus white, silky, of unbranched hairs.
Habitat: Walls, banks, roadsides, meadows, waste places.
Distribution: Common over most of the region.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No