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Smooth Hawk's-beard, Crepis capillaris Family: Asteraceae
Smooth Hawk's-beard
Crepis capillaris


Flowering time: June-September. Annual or biennial

Very common on waste and arable ground, heaths, grassland and roadsides. Prefers poor, dry, acidic soils.

Erect buds followed by small yellow flowers, the petals often reddish underneath. Hairless leaves, the basal leaves pinnate with narrow toothed lobes, the smaller upper leaves stalkless and clasping stems.


Smooth Hawk's-beard, Crepis capillaris     Smooth Hawk's-beard, Crepis capillaris

Smooth Hawk's-beard, Crepis capillaris
Smooth Hawk's-beard, Crepis capillaris
Holton Lee, Dorset. October 2012

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