Crepis bakeri subsp. cusickii
Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 504: 140. 1938.
Common names: Cusick’s hawksbeard
Basionym: Crepis cusickii Eastwood
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 226.
Revision as of 00:14, 27 July 2019 by FNA>Volume Importer
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
Distribution
Calif., Oreg., Utah.
Discussion
Subspecies cusickii is usually smaller than subsp. bakeri.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.