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§1 Plant

Crepis capillaris (L.) Wallr.

vernacular smooth hawksbeard — species · Asteraceae


USDA
CRCA3
GBIF
5403304
Rank
species
smooth hawksbeard (Crepis capillaris)
Platephotograph · Jacqui GeuxCC BY source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Annual, Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Crepis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 235 counties across 32 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 235 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 235 counties across 32 states/territories.

California view state ↗ 17 I
Colorado view state ↗ 2 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Hawaii view state ↗ 1 I
Idaho view state ↗ 5 I
Illinois view state ↗ 3 I
Indiana view state ↗ 3 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 3 I
Maine view state ↗ 2 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 11 I
Michigan view state ↗ 5 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I
Missouri view state ↗ 2 I
Montana view state ↗ 1 I
Nevada view state ↗ 1 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 5 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 10 I
New York view state ↗ 20 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 11 I
North Dakota view state ↗ 2 I
Ohio view state ↗ 8 I
Oregon view state ↗ 19 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 24 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 7 I
Texas view state ↗ 1 I
Utah view state ↗ 2 I
Vermont view state ↗ 5 I
Virginia view state ↗ 21 I
Washington view state ↗ 20 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 17 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 3 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/CRCA3 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5403304 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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