Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Crepis foetida subsp. foetida
Common name
Stinking Hawksbeard
Family
Asteraceae
Where found
Weed of roadsides and disturbed areas. Western Slopes, Snowy Mountains, ACT, and the tablelands. Sydney area.
Notes
Introduced annual or biennial herb to 0.8 m high. Stems branched, hairy or bristly to sticky hairy. Basal leaves usually forming a weakly developed rosette, 3–13 cm long, 10–30 mm wide, tips blunt to pointed, surfaces more or less hairy, margins toothed to deeply dissected. Stem leaves alternating up the stems, lobed to entire, becoming smaller up the stem. Flower heads hanging down in bud. Flower heads with many 'petals', yellow to orange-yellow, with a red stripe on the outer face, each 6–9 mm long. Flower heads top shaped, 10–15 mm in diameter below the 'petals', 1–3 per stem. Flowering: summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Crepis~foetida (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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