Crepis alpestris, (Jacq.) Tausch

18. C. alpestris (Jacq.) Tausch View in CoL , Flora (Regensb.) 11 (Ergänz. 1): 79 (1828).

Stems 10-35 cm, usually simple. Leaves with short yellow glandular or eglandular hairs and sparsely tomentulose, or glabrescent; basal 3-12 x 0-7-2 cm, oblanceolate, obtuse to acute, denticulate to runcinate-pinnatifid or pinnately divided, with terminalsegmentnarrowly lanceolate, narrowedintoa winged petiole; cauline like the basal or lanceolate, sessile, more or less amplexicaul. Capitula l (-6). Involucre (9-)12-15(-16) x 7-15 mm; bracts linear-lanceolate, usually obtuse, the outer as long as inner, greyish- or yellowish-tomentose and with short, black or green glandular hairs, pubescent on inner face. Achenes 7-10 mm, pale brown, fusiform, strongly attenuate above, rarely coarsely and shortly beaked, 10- to 12-ribbed. 2л = 8. 500-2650 m; usually calcicele. From the Jura and Carpathians to the mountains of N. Italy and Albania. Al Au Cz Ga Ge He It Ju Rm.

Hybrids of 18 with 17 and with 16 have been recorded from C. Europe.