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TAPERTIP HAWKSBEARD 



Cre'pis acumina'ta 



Flowers yellow, all petal-like and 5- 

 tootbcd at the tips 



Flower head enclosed by a conspic- 

 uous series of smooth and equal invo- 

 lucral bracts, with a few, very short, 

 outer bracts at the base 



"Seed" (achene) smooth, 10-ribbed, 

 narrowed toward summit but not pro- 

 longed into a beak, tipped by a ring of 

 whitish, persistent bristles (pappus) 



Stem leaves stalkless, the upper ones 

 linear and entire 



Basal leaves grayish-white-hairy.. 

 lance-shaped in outline, pinnately cut 

 in to linear, sometimes toothed lobes, and 

 prolonged into tapering (acuminate) tips 



Stems 1 to several, branched and 

 leafy, 1 to 2% ft. high 



Taproot tough, usually elongated. 



Tapertip hawksbeard belongs to the chicory tribe (Cichorieae) of the large 

 aster, or sunflower family (Compositae) and, like the other members of the 

 genus, has yellow flowers with an involucre of a single series of long, sepallike 



