Crepis rubra, L.

50. C. rubra L. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 806 (1753).

Stems 1 to many, 4-40 cm, simple or with 1 branch. Leaves with pale simple eglandular hairs; basal 2-15 x 0-5-3 cm, few to many, oblanceolate, acute, narrowed to base, denticulate, dentate or runcinate-pinnatifid, with triangular or lanceolate, acute segments; cauline few, mostly bract-like, the lower sometimes like the basal. Capitula 1 or 2. Involucre 11-15 x 4-10 mm; outer bracts lanceolate, acute, pale or scarious, c. ł as long as the inner, glabrous or puberulent; inner linear-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, pale at margin, with numerous, long and short, pale glandular hairs. Ligules pink or white. Achenes dark brown, fusiform, of 2 kinds: marginal 8-5-9 mm, gradually attenuate into a usually short beak, c. 10-ribbed, coarsely and strongly spinulose; inner 12-21 mm, gradually attenuate into a long, rather slender beak, 15- to 20- ribbed, spinulose. 2/2= 10. S. Italy; Balkan peninsula, Kriti. Al Cr Gr It Ju [Ga].