Species name :

Crepis vesicaria subsp. hyemalis (Bivona) Babcock
Published in Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 19: 404 (1941)

Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.)

Crepis hyemalis

Full list of synonyms : [Euro+Med] [PlantList] [IPNI] [POWO] [Catalogue of Life ]

Plant Family :

Asteraceae Bercht. & J.Presl (=Compositae) (The Daisy or Sunflower Family)
125 species from the Asteraceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands.

English name(s) :

Beaked Hawksbeard

Maltese name(s) :

Krepis Sqalli

Status for Malta :

Subendemic. Found in Malta and neighbouring territories such as in south Sicily, Lampedusa, Pantelleria, etc.

Frequency :

Very Common     Common     Frequent     Scarce     Rare     Very Rare     Extinct

Growth form :

Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: Soon to be updated...
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon

Legal Protection [link]:

Protected by law: schedule III of legal notice LN311/2006. (Conservation requires the designation of SAC)

Red List (1989) :

Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands

Flowering Time :

May-Oct

Colour of Flowers:

Yellow

Habitat in Europe:

Data will be available in the next update of this website.

Preferred habitat in Malta:

Data will be available in the next update of this website.

Botanical Description:

Perennial, biennial or annual; stems 3-150 cm, usually much-branched; ultimate branches deflexed before anthesis. Leaves pubescent or glabrous; basal 10-35 x 2-8 cm, oblanceolate or sometimes almost spathulate or ovate, obtuse to acute, sinuately or retrorsely denticulate, dentate or runcinate-pinnatifid, pinnatisect or 2-pinnatisect, often lyrate, sometimes pectinate, narrowed at base; lower cauline like the basal or sessile; upper cauline lanceolate to bract-like, auriculate-amplexicaul. Capitula many, often in a lax corymb. Involucre 10-13 x 5-9 mm, tomentose, with a median row of black eglandular hairs; bracts linear-lanceolate, not imbricate, outer c. 1/3 as long as inner. Achenes 5-7 mm, uniform, pale brown, attenuate into a slender or rather stout beak nearly equalling the body, 10-ribbed.

Chromosome number:

2n=8

Distributional range:

Sicilia and small islands of C. Mediterranean region.

Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018):

Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993):

Sicily and/or Malta

Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) - Country codes

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