Asteraceae
Rough hawksbeard
Crepis biennis
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Crepis
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Rough hawksbeard
Synonyms
- Barkhausia pinguis Rchb.
- Brachyderea biennis Sch.Bip.
- Brachyderea biennis (L.) F.W.Schultz
- Crepis biennis subsp. subalpina (Nyár.) Nyár.
- Crepis biennis var. alpestris Beauverd
- Crepis biennis var. banatica Rochel
- Crepis biennis var. calcarea (Wender.) Wigand & F.Meigen
- Crepis biennis var. carpatica Popov
- Crepis biennis var. dentata W.D.J.Koch
- Crepis biennis var. dentata Wimm. & Grab.
- Crepis biennis var. glabrescens Schur
- Crepis biennis var. glandulosopilosa Heuff.
- Crepis biennis var. hispida Woerl. ex Beger
- Crepis biennis var. humilis Schur
- Crepis biennis var. lacera Wimm. & Grab.
- Crepis biennis var. leptophylla Wallr.
- Crepis biennis var. lorifolia Beck
- Crepis biennis var. maritima Corb.
- Crepis biennis var. minoriceps Murr
- Crepis biennis var. nitens Nyár.
- Crepis biennis var. platyphylla Wallr.
- Crepis biennis var. pubescens Beckh.
- Crepis biennis var. runcinata Wimm. & Grab.
- Crepis biennis var. scabriuscula Schur
- Crepis biennis var. scrabifolia Vacc.
- Crepis biennis var. semiincisa Wimm. & Grab.
- Crepis biennis var. silviae Yuksip
- Crepis biennis var. subalpina Nyár.
- Crepis calcarea Wender.
- Crepis glabra Krock.
- Crepis lodomeriensis Besser
- Crepis maritima Boucher
- Crepis muricata Gilib.
- Crepis sabauda Balb. ex DC.
- Crepis scanensis L.
- Crepis scanensis L. ex Froel.
- Crepis scepusiensis Kit.
- Crepis tectorum var. elata Ledeb.
- Crepis transsilvanica Schur
- Crepis tristis Klokov
and 4 more.
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Canada: introduced, Lower 48 states: introduced
Photos

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0); popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.