[Hawksbeards: The Genus Crepis East of the Cascade Mts. of Oregon and Washington]
Gray Hawksbeard, Intermediate Hawksbeard, Limestone Hawksbeard
Crepis intermedia
Synonym: Psilochenia intermedia
Gray hawksbeard as seen on slopes above the Klickitat River in the Klickitat State Wildlife Area of south-central Washington.........May 31, 2009.
Characteristics:
Gray hawksbeard is a one or two-stemmed perennial from a taproot,
arising from 20-70 cm in height. Its herbage is varied, often being densely
gray-haired (like thin felt) to sparsely gray haired. The basal and stem leaves
vary from 10-40 cm long, and are pinnatifid with many entire to toothed lobes.
The inflorescence contains from 10-60 flower heads, with each
head having 7-12 ray flowers. The involucre is 10-16 mm tall, sometimes smooth
but more commonly gray haired. The outer bracts (barely seen at the base of
the involucre in the photo above) are very short in contrast to the long inner
bracts (which normally number from 7-8).
Habitat:
Gray hawksbeard is a plant of dry, open places in the foothills
and plains.
Range:
Gray Hawksbeard is found east of the Cascade Mts. from central
Washington south to California and eastward to Colorado, Wyoming and then north
to Alberta.
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Gray hawksbeard as seen (left) along the trail to the north east of High Lake, Strawberry Mountain Wilderness............July 17, 2013. The photo at right shows gray hawksbeard as seen along FS Road 38-200 to the southeast of Spanish Peak, Ochoco National Forest........August 14, 2015. Gray hawksbeard (right) as seen near the ski shelter atop Lookout Mountain, Ochoco National Forest..........June 15, 2015..
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Gray hawksbeard in bud at left at the base of a rocky slope just upstream along Ochoco Creek from the group camp at Ochoco Forest Camp, Ochoco National Forest.........April 30, 2016. The photo at right shows gray hawksbeard with floral buds on rocky slopes above Dry Creek about one mile upstream from Wenas Creek, DNR lands in Yakima County, WA.....May 29, 2022.
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Additional photos of gray hawksbeard as seen near Antelope Mountain Lookout, Malheur National Forest........July 3, 2010. A few of the bristles on the flower head are tipped with glands.
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Close-up views of the flower heads of gray hawksbeard as seen on slopes above the Klickitat River in the Klickitat State Wildlife Area of south-central Washington.........May 31, 2009.
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Close-up views of the flower heads and leaf of gray hawksbeard as seen on slopes above Canyon Creek in the Klickitat State Wildlife Area of south-central Washington........May 31, 2009.
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Gray hawksbeard as seen on Bickleton Ridge in the Bickleton Ridge Unit of the Klickitat Wildlife Area..........June 17, 2017.
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Gray hawksbeard as seen along FS Road 3915 in the Bald Hills of the Mt. Bidwell Recreation Area, Fremont-Winema National Forest........July 31, 2020.
Gray hawksbeard as seen fading out of bloom near the top of Sugarloaf Mountain, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.......August 13, 2018.
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Gray hawksbeard as seen in bud along the Fremont National Recreation Trail #160 on the northwest slopes of Hager Mountain, Fremont National Forest..........May 19, 2016.
Paul Slichter