Rough Hawksbeard Crepis biennis

Features

Habitat: intensive meadows and pastures, ruderal areas, fields, sidewalks, borders, orchards, even next to houses.

Species	Annual and biennial plant
Living space	Cultivated areas, Field, Meadow
Size	50-120 cm

Description

Upright, fairly overgrown biennial with ground-floor leaf rosette, strong rhizome and white milkweed. The stem is stiff, furrowed, smooth and glabrous, mostly densely leafy. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate to striate, pinnately divided or eroded (stalked) into narrow, triangular prongs (the upper stem leaves are mostly from 0-4 prongs), mostly glabrous or scattered protruding. The catkins are quite large, in overgrown inflorescences, benevolent, formed by lingual yellow flowers. Covers narrowly lanceolate, glabrous on the outside or overgrown with glandular hairs, long-haired on the inside. The fruit is a narrowly elongated nut (cone) that has 13-20 narrow ribs and a tufted stalk (reduced sepals) made of simple, white hairs. Special features: the species is characteristic of rather intensive grasslands, which are repeatedly mowed and fertilized. In the first year it develops a rich leaf rosette, which strongly resembles a leaf rosette in dandelion. The leaves are suitable for a variety of dishes.