Cusick’s hawksbeard

Crepis cusickii Eastwood, Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 30: 502. 1903

Plants 8–16 cm . Leaves 8–12 × 2–2.5 cm, deeply lobed, lobes triangular, dentate, faces tomen-tose. Heads 1–4(–10). Calyculi: bractlets lanceolate (longest ± ¹/2 phyllaries). Involucres broadly cylindric, 13–17 mm in fruit. Cypselae dark brown, 6–9(–10) mm, narrowed and strongly tapered at apices; pappi 6–9 mm. 2n = 22, 33.

Flowering Jun–Jul. Dry open places, sagebrush scrub; 1200–2200 m; Calif., Oreg., Utah.

Subspecies cusickii is usually smaller than subsp. bakeri.