610 COMPOSITAE 
15. Crepis runcinata subsp. hispidulésa Fig, Coed Babe. & Stebbins. 
Meadow Hawksbeard. 
Crepis ial apt bree Pittonia 3: 27. 1896 
tspidulosa avant x Rydb., — N.Y. Bot. Gard. 1: 461. 1900. 
leolat e, Leaflets Bot. Obs. 2: 
G venie pallens eeoeag on: cit. 
Crepis runcinata subsp. hispidulosa (Howell) Babe. & Stebbins, Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. No. 504: 96. 1938, 
Perennial, stems 1-3 from a swollen, simple or 1-forked, thickened caudex and a fleshy root, 
usually 2.5-5 dm. high, glabrous or glandular-hispid. Basal leaves obovate, rounded at the apex, 
6-25 cm. long, cm. wide, the margin toothed toward the base, dentate above; cauline leaves 
redu ved o bracts; inflorescences of 10-30 heads, the heads 20-50-flowered; involucre 8-12 mm. 
high, campantlate phyllaries linear-lanceolate, acute, more or less glandular- hispid, the outer few 
and short, much shorter than the yee ee .5=5 mm. long, light to dark brown, mostly 
10-tibbed, narrowed but not eernrs. ait us 4-8 mm. lon 
regpey moist alkaline mea Arid Trans sata tibem ses pee and Oregon in the Svat 
Stat also Montana, Idaho, Gis. so northern Utah. Type locality: base of Steen Mountains, Harn 
County Oregon. June—Jul 
is runcinata tehap . imbricata Babe. & Sethian, Kosuegie Hr Wash. Pub. No. 504: 102. 1938. rea 
Oregon soc to ilk and Rad Canuaea Nevada. Type locality: Alvor d Valle ey, Moree antes regon 
is runcinata subsp. andersonii (A. Gray) Babc. & Stebbins, Carnegie Inst. Wash. Pub. No. 504: 104. 
1938. repis andersonti A. Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6: Joa: reo — Dearie 6-20 heads; basal leaves 
ke imbricata; phyllaries attenuate at the apex, the inner 13-2 ; achenes 6—8 mm. long, more 
oa tebe strongly beake d. Alkaline ee Sierra County, California, pe iH aoe Ormsby, and Esmeralda 
gee Bhd ae Type locality: Carson City, Ormsby County, Nevada. 
nata subsp. hallii Babe. & Stebbins, pain, Inst. Mera ib. No. 
es 6.5 
leaves pee ca eads of yellow Beers "alaaty at the ends ed holl In- 
volucre shone. or campanulate, its inner phyllaries in 1 series, slightly united at base and 
often corniculat h , the r in several series of shorter, somewhat erect, 
reflexed or spreading ones. Recep at, naked; ligules yellow (in ours), truncate, 
5-tooth t the mit. Anthers sagittate at the base; style-branches slender, obtuse. 
Achenes oblong or linear-fusiform, -angled, 5-10-nerved, roughened or spinulose at 
least above, tapering into a slender beak. Pa appus of many unequal, filiform, persistent 
eae [Name from the Greek, meaning to stir up, alluding to medical virt 
enetically complex genus of f= erhaps 50 or 60 species, though many more have been descr ibed; occurring 
in << = =a New Worlds and in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Type species, Taraxacum offi- 
cinale 
Only Tinnited synonymy is shown for the taxa given below. For a more — oe of the taxa described 
see: a iorete der Gattung Taraxacum, Handel-Mazzetti, 190 7; North - n Species of Taraxacum, Sherff, 
Bot. Gaz. 70: 329-359, 1920; and various papers by Haglund and Dahlste 
Introduced, widespread, weedy species; outer phyllaries reflexed to spreading (often less so in T. laevigatum). 
Leaves usually not deeply grimconley the terminal lobe larger than the lateral ones; inner peak scarcely 
or not at all corniculate. 1. T. officin 
Leaves usually deeply fy cornicalate the terminal lobe scarcely or not larger than the ere pat inne phyl- 
y cornicu. aevigatu 
Nati e M4 Fe EK | a 
Svleenes brown, olive-brown, or stramin neous en ripe, obscurely quadrangular 
Inner phyllaries mostly peeelate; plants circumboreal in mountains of ‘Washington Oregon, and prob: 
ably northern Californ eo ceratophorum. 
Inner phyllaries seldom if at a corniculate; plants of southern California 5 aah : 
4. T. californicum. 
Achenes red or reddish brown when ripe, mostly sharply quadrangular. 5. T. eriophorum. 
1. Taraxacum officinale Weber. Common Dandelion. Fig. 6064. 
eontod. L. Sp. Pl. 798. 1753 
ah. — Leontedo fee Lam. FI. Franc. 2: 113. 1778. 
} acum officinale Weber in Wiggers, Prim. Fl, Holst. 56, 1780. 
ey psd cadeee dens-leonis Desf. Fl. Atlantica 2: 228. 1799. 
Taraxacum palustre var. vulgare Fernald, Rhodora 35: 380. 1933. 
thick and deep. Leaves oblong to spatulate in outline, pinnatifid, sinuate-dentate ot 
arid nearly entire, usually with a large terminal , 1-3 dm. long, 2-5 cm. wide, glabrous or 
ent ; scapes usually several, 540 cm. high ; heads solitary, .2.5-5 cm. broad, with numerous 
Coton flowers ; i inner pis ttasiee es erect, linear to linear-lanceolate, maney way fasion ; outer phyl- 
in auihe but shorter and refle xed ; sates tee ed cee rown, - orm, spinulose 
