Hawksbeard

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 593

Hawksbeard (Crepis), a genus of annual and biennial plants belonging to the natural order Compositæ, so closely related to Hawkweed (Hieracium) that some of the species are referred to the one genus or the other according to the peculiar views of individual botanists. The species are widely distributed through Europe and Asia.

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