Blooms: May-July
Habit: herb
Duration: perennial
Origin: Native
Conservation Status: Abundant; of no concern.

Distribution: Occurring east of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia south to Nevada, east to the Great Plains of Canada and the U.S.
Habitat: Dry, open places, foothills to moderate elevations in the mountains.

Species Description:

General: Perennial with 1 or 2 stems from a tap-root, 1.5-7 dm. tall, with milky juice, covered with fine, short white wool at least when young.
Leaves: Basal and lower cauline leaves 1-3.5 dm. long, deeply pinnatifid, with narrow main axis and linear, entire segments; upper leaves becoming linear and entire.
Flowers: Heads 3-30(40) with 10-40 flowers; corollas 10-18 mm long; involucre 8-15 mm high, typically with gray tomentum and often with black setae that lack glands; involucre rarely glabrous; outer involucral bracts less than half as long as the mostly 8-10 inner ones.
Fruits: Achenes greenish, tapered to the tip.

Crepis atribarba A. Heller

Treated in Flora of the PNW as:

PNW Herbaria Specimens: View list of Crepis atribarba specimens in the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria database.

WTU Herbarium Specimens: View list of Crepis atribarba specimens in the WTU Herbarium database.

Washington Flora Checklist: Crepis atribarba treatment.

E-Flora BC: Crepis atribarba atlas page.

CalPhotos: Crepis atribarba images.

USDA Plants Database: Crepis atribarba.