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|accepted_name=Urospermum
|accepted_authority=Scopoli
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Intr. Hist. Nat.,
|place=122. 1777
|year=1777
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae;Urospermum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Urospermum]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek uro, tail, and sperma, seed, alluding to beaks of cypselae
|volume=Volume 19
|mention_page=page 215
|treatment_page=page 296
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Annuals </b>[perennials], 10–40(–60+) cm; taprooted. <b>Stems</b> usually 1, erect, branched distally, setose to hispid or glabrous [pilosulous]. <b>Leaves</b> mostly cauline (at flowering) [mostly basal]; proximal ± petiolate, distal sessile; blades of the proximal mostly obovate to oblong-obovate, usually pinnately lobed or dentate, distal ovate to linear (bases often clasping), ultimate margins dentate or entire (veins often setose on abaxial faces). <b>Heads</b> borne singly or in loose, corymbiform arrays. <b>Peduncles</b> little, if at all, inflated distally, rarely bracteate. <b>Calyculi</b> 0. <b>Involucres</b> ± urceolate, 10–20+ mm diam. <b>Phyllaries</b> 7–8(–12+) in 1(–2) series, ovate-lanceolate to lance-linear (basally connate), subequal, margins scarious, apices acuminate. <b>Receptacles</b> flat to convex, pitted, hispid, epaleate. <b>Florets</b> 20–50+; corollas yellow, sometimes striped abaxially with red. <b>Cypselae</b> brown, bodies flattened-oblong, ± tuberculate, faces glabrous or scabrellous, beaks proximally dilated and tuberculate, distally acuminate and scabrous to scabrellous; pappi readily falling, of 18–22+ white [buff to rufous], subequal, plumose bristles in 1(–2) series (basally connate, falling together). <b>x</b> = 5, 7?.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;adjacent Africa and Asia;adventive in South America;s Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 2 (1 in the flora).</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=lack1979a
|text=Lack, H. W. and B. E. Leuenberger. 1979. Pollen and taxonomy of Urospermum (Asteraceae, Lactuceae). Pollen & Spores 21: 415–425.
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name=Urospermum
|author=John L. Strother
|authority=Scopoli
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Asteraceae
|illustrator=Marjorie C. Leggitt
|distribution=Europe;adjacent Africa and Asia;adventive in South America;s Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=lack1979a
|publication title=Intr. Hist. Nat.,
|publication year=1777
|special status=
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|tribe=Asteraceae tribe Cichorieae
|genus=Urospermum
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