Annual or biennial, very similar to the following species, C. hirsuta L., but lax, usually with several branches from below, roots fibrous on a short rootstock, basal leaves hardly or loosely rosulate, and stamens always 6.

Fl. Per.: March-June.

Type; Described from Britain.

Distribution: Europe and Asia, introduced in N. America.

C. inayatic Schulz is a from of this species with somewhat conical terminal lobes of leaf.