Crepis bakeri subsp. cusickii

(Eastwood) Babcock & Stebbins

Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. 504: 140. 1938.

Common names: Cusick’s hawksbeard
Endemic
Basionym: Crepis cusickii Eastwood Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 502. 1903
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 19. Treatment on page 226.

Plants 8–16 cm. Leaves 8–12 × 2–2.5 cm, deeply lobed, lobes triangular, dentate, faces tomentose. Heads 1–4 (–10). Calyculi: bractlets lanceolate (longest ± 1/2 phyllaries). Involucres broadly cylindric, 13–17 mm in fruit. Cypselae dark-brown, 6–9 (–10) mm, narrowed and strongly tapered at apices; pappi 6–9 mm. 2n = 22, 33.


Phenology: Flowering Jun–Jul.
Habitat: Dry open places, sagebrush scrub
Elevation: 1200–2200 m

Discussion

Subspecies cusickii is usually smaller than subsp. bakeri.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"fine" is not a number."fine" is not a number.

stipitate-glandular +, setose +, tomentose +  and glabrous +
with fine hairs +  and glabrous +
tapered;acute;acute +
scarious +
ovate +  and lanceolate +
indeterminate +  and determinate +
David J. Bogler +
(Eastwood) Babcock & Stebbins +
runcinate +, lyrate +, lanceolate +  and linear or spatulate +
decurrent +
Crepis cusickii +
compound +  and simple +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
runcinate +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
tuberculate +, rugose +, muricate +  and smooth +
lanceolate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
filiform +
lobing +, entire +  and lobed +
Cusick’s hawksbeard +
zygomorphic +, actinomorphic +  and (3-)5-merous +
1.6 cm16 mm <br />0.016 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
tapered +  and narrowed +
Calif. +, Oreg. +  and Utah. +
1200–2200 m +
winged +  and beaked +
dispersed +
Dry open places, sagebrush scrub +
indeterminate +
each +  and sessile +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> (2.1 cm21 mm <br />0.021 m <br />) +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> (1.7 cm17 mm <br />0.017 m <br />) +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> (12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br />) +
cauline +  and basal +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
triangular +
dentate +  and entire +
green +  and yellowish +
2-carpellate +
persistent +
connate +  and distinct +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (0.9 cm9 mm <br />0.009 m <br />) +
Flowering Jun–Jul. +
connate +  and distinct +
10 +  and 14 +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br />) +
Publ. Carnegie Inst. Wash. +
hairy +  and glabrous +
convex;flat +
10 +  and 13 +
spiculate-roughened +
exalbuminous +
stipitate-glandular +  and tomentose +
1 +  and 3 +
appendaged +  and truncate +
papillate +
Undefined tribe Lactuceae +
Crepis bakeri subsp. cusickii +
Crepis bakeri +
subspecies +
taprooted +  and rhizomatous +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br />) +
11 +, 6 +, 5 +, 4 +  and 3 +