Crepis bakeri subsp. cusickii

(Eastwood) Babcock & Stebbins

Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 504: 140. 1938.

Common names: Cusick’s hawksbeard
Endemic
Basionym: Crepis cusickii Eastwood Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 502. 1903
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 226.

Plants 8–16 cm. Leaves 8–12 × 2–2.5 cm, deeply lobed, lobes triangular, dentate, faces tomen-tose. Heads 1–4(–10). Calyculi: bractlets lanceolate (longest ± 1/2 phyllaries). Involucres broadly cylindric, 13–17 mm in fruit. Cypselae dark brown, 6–9(–10) mm, narrowed and strongly tapered at apices; pappi 6–9 mm. 2n = 22, 33.


Phenology: Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat: Dry open places, sagebrush scrub
Elevation: 1200–2200 m

Discussion

Subspecies cusickii is usually smaller than subsp. bakeri.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.