''Crepis intermedia'' is a

North America North America is a continent in the Northern Hemisphere and almost entirely within the Western Hemisphere. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Car ...

n species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name limestone hawksbeard. It is native to the Pacific Northwest, Columbia Plateau,

Great Plains The Great Plains (french: Grandes Plaines), sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, an ...

and

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regions of western

. ''Crepis intermedia'' grows in many types of open and forested habitat. It is a perennial herb growing an erect, multibranched stem from a thick taproot, reaching up to 70 centimeters (28 inches) in height. It has woolly green herbage. The leaves are lined with triangular lobes and the lowest leaves approach 40 centimeters (16 inches) long. The inflorescence is an open array of many

ligulate A ligule (from "strap", variant of ''lingula'', from ''lingua'' "tongue") is a thin outgrowth at the junction of leaf and leafstalk of many grasses (Poaceae) and sedges. A ligule is also a strap-shaped extension of the corolla, such as that of a ...

flower heads A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"; ) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, compos ...

, each with woolly phyllaries and several yellow ray florets but no disc florets. The fruit is a narrow, ribbed

achene An achene (; ), also sometimes called akene and occasionally achenium or achenocarp, is a type of simple dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. Achenes are monocarpellate (formed from one carpel) and indehiscent (they do not ope ...

just under a centimeter long.Gray, Asa. 1884. Synoptical Flora of North America 1(2): 432
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Calflora Database: ''Crepis intermedia'' (Intermediate hawksbeard, Limestone hawksbeard)Jepson Manual eFlora (TJM2) treatment of ''Crepis intermedia''USDA Plants Profile for ''Crepis intermedia'' (limestone hawksbeard)UC Calphotos gallery of ''Crepis intermedia''
* intermedia Flora of Western Canada Flora of the Western United States Flora of California Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States) Plants described in 1884 Taxa named by Asa Gray Flora without expected TNC conservation status {{Cichorieae-stub