
CHICORY FAMILY. Cicoriaceae. . 
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each bearing a single, handsome, bright yellow flower, 
from one to two inches across, which is succeeded by a 
beautiful silvery seed puff. This plant has many common 
names, such as Blow-ball, Monk’s-head, Lion’s-tooth, etc. 
There are a great many kinds of Crepis, natives of the - 
northern hemisphere. 
This is a pretty plant, for the gray- 
“abe toal green foliage sets off the yellow flowers. 
Crepis occidentalis 1t is from six to eighteen inches high, 
Yellow more or less hairy or downy all over, with 
Spring,summer one or several, stout, branching, leafy 
= stems, and thickish leaves, variously cut, 
mostly jagged like Dandelion leaves, with crisp margins, 
dark bluish-green in color and often covered on the under 
side with obscure white down, the root-leaves narrowed to 
leaf-stalks at the base. The flower-heads are about an inch 
across, with bright yellow rays, the involucre sprinkled 
with short, dark hairs. This grows on dry plains, as 
far east as Colorado. 
Smooth Hawks- This is a weed from Europe, growing in 
as fields and waste places, in the East and on 
Crépbis virens the Pacific Coast. It is a smooth plant, 
Yellow from one to two feet tall, with green leaves 
Summer 
the shape of Dandelion leaves, chiefly in a 
bunch at the root.” The many, small, 
yellow flowers, each about a quarter of an inch long, are in 
a loose cluster at the top of the stem. This is very variable. 
A handsome and conspicuous plant, 
ig es often forming large clumps, from one to 
Crépis acuminata : : 
WeNcw three: feet tall, with dull green, downy, 
Spring, summer rather leathery leaves, irregularly slashed 
West, except and cut, and large clusters of light bright 
srg yellow flowers, each about three-quarters 
of aninch across. This grows on hillsides and on high dry 
mesas. 
Cal., Oreg., etc. 
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