Crepis zacintha explained

Crepis zacintha, the striped hawksbeard, is a plant species native to southern Europe (Greece, Italy, Albania, Bulgaria, etc.) but now naturalized on roadsides and other disturbed sites in Texas, Israel, Cyprus, and the United Kingdom.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Crepis zacintha is an annual herb up to 30 cm (12 inches) tall, often branching above ground. Heads are solitary in the axils of branches. Each head has up to 30 ray florets, yellow with a reddish tinge on the back. There are no disc florets.^{[1] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Notes and References

1. http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250066456 Flora of North America Crepis zacintha
2. http://flora.huji.ac.il/browse.asp?lang=en&action=specie&specie=CREZAC Flora of Israel Online, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
3. http://ww2.bgbm.org/euroPlusMed/PTaxonDetail.asp?UUID=CB627CBE-492F-43A0-A92C-72CF913E6DD5 Euro+Med Plantbase Project
4. Linnaeus, Carl von. Species Plantarum 2: 811. 1753.
5. Babcock, Ernest Brown. University of California Publications in Botany 19(11): 404. 1941.
6. Allioni, Carlo. Flora Pedemontana 1: 227. 1785.
7. Gaertner, Joseph. De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 2: 358, pl. 157, f. 7. 1791.
8. Dumont de Courset, George(s) Louis Marie. Le Botaniste Cultivateur 2: 339. 1801.