Picris L.
Annual to perennial taprooted herbs. Hairs eglandular, stiff, bristly, with 2-4 recurved barbs at apex; lf hairs sometimes with white bulbous bases; spines sometimes present. Stem usually solitary, branched above. Lvs basal and cauline, shallowly dentate to pinnatisect. Capitula terminal and axillary, pedunculate. Involucral bracts in several series, hairy to bristly, the outer either broad and leaflike or similar to the inner. Receptacle areolate, the areoles ciliolate; scales 0. Corolla ligulate, yellow, sometimes red-striped. Style branches filiform, dark. Achenes brown or pale, numerous, terete, transversely wrinkled, beaked or not; pappus white to sordid, in 2 rows, the inner plumose, the outer plumose or simple, sometimes pappus seemingly in 1 row.
Key
40-50 spp., Eurasia, N. Africa, Australasia. Native sp. 1, naturalised 1.
