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Bayer Code : cvpvv

Scientific name: Crepis vesicaria L.


Synonym(s) of Sc. name: Crepis taraxacifolia Thuill., Barkhausia taraxacifolia De Candolle

Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: beaked hawk's-beard

Synonym(s) of Common name:

Name per country: DE : Blasiger Pippau ; ES : ; FR : crépis à feuilles de pissenlit ; IT : radicchiella vescicosa ; PT : almeirôa ; EN : beaked hawk's-beard ;

Biological type: Biennial


Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elongate, spoonlike.

- Leaves entire, deeply notched.


Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 30-70cm.

- Stems erect, branched above in corymb, grooved and reddish at the base.

- Leaves basal in rosette downy, oblong, lanceolate, pinnatipartite. Stem leaves hastate -based, amplexicaule, sessile dentate.

- Florets yellow, the outermost reddish in head. Capitules numerous, long-stalked, medium-sized. Involucral bracts often very broad so the head seems campanulate.*

- Fruits : achenes 4-5 mm, with a short beak and a white pappus.

- Risk of confusion at seedling stage with Cichorium intybus and the other species of Crepis .

- Biological type: Biennial.

Mistake with: Cichorium intybus , Crepis


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