Crepis setosa Haller f.
bristly hawksbeard
Annual. Stems erect, branching, ribbed to grooved, 40-100 cm tall; hairs pale, stiff and bristly, also sparse to dense and filamentous above. Rosette and lower stem lvs thin, petiolate, oblong to oblanceolate, rarely linear- oblanceolate, usually deeply pinnatifid, rarely simple and shallowly pinnatifid or toothed, 6-20-(40) × (0.8)-1.5-6-(10) cm; hairs pale, bristly, 0.5-1 mm long, sparse beneath; lobes slightly recurved, lobed again especially acroscopically. Upper stem lvs sessile, triangular to linear, toothed or divided up to 1/2way into slender lobes at least at auriculate base; hairs pale, bristly. Capitula turbinate to campanulate; buds erect. Involucral bracts with pale coarse bristly hairs and often sparse filamentous hairs on midrib of outer surface, and fine appressed straight hairs on inner surface especially distally; outer bracts 10-15, linear, c. 1/2 length of inner bracts; inner bracts lanceolate, not keeled, 7-10 mm long, with pale to scarious glabrous margins. Receptacle areoles with low finely ciliolate margins. Corolla yellow, sometimes with red stripe on outer face of ligule. Achenes brown, 10-ribbed, fusiform, scabrid, beaked or shortly beaked, 4-7 mm long. Pappus bristles in 1 row, fine, white.
N.: Auckland City, Gisborne City; S.: Nelson, Marlborough (Blenheim, Seddon).
Mediterranean and S.E. Europe, S.W. Asia 1883
Waste land, roadsides, pastures, gardens, lucerne crops.
The pale bristly eglandular hairs on the peduncles and involucral bracts of C. setosa distinguish it from the other Crepis spp. in N.Z.
