Crepis sancta (L.) Bornm. Yaban Kıskısı (in Turkish)

Crepis sancta (L.) Bornm. - Yaban Kıskısı (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Variable, usually acaulescent annual up to 65 cm with a slender taproot, glabrous, setose or densely villous, with or without slender glandular hairs. Stems often scapigerous, somewhat decumbent to erect, 1−many-capitulate. Leaves up to 17 × 4 cm, obovate-spathulate to oblanceolate, denticulate to ± deeply pinnatisect, apex acute or obtuse, usually with stiff hairs. Peduncles up to 16 cm, spreading, arcuate-ascending or ± erect. Capitula (14−)30−60(−100)-flowered. Involucre (4−)6−10(−12) mm long; phyllaries few to several, often membranous-margined. Receptacle with setiform paleae exceeding mature achenes, very rarely absent; alveole margins glabrous. Ligules 3−9 mm, yellow, pink-tinged or not. Style branches dark green, light green or yellow. Achenes 3.5−5(−7) mm, 2−3-morphic, truncate or attenuate above but not beaked, outer (sometimes lacking) white, compressed, angled or conspicuously winged, inner greenish or brown, terete, 8−10-ribbed or striate, smooth or spiculate. Pappus very fine, soft, persistent, ± included in involucre.

 

Flowering time: (February−)March−July(−August).

Habitat: Woodland, rocky volcanic or limestone slopes, Artemisia L. steppe, lush grass slopes, sandy clay, sand dunes, fallow fields, s.l.−2450 m.

 

Reference:
Davis PH (1975). Crepis sancta (L.) Bornm., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 834.

Public Description:

Crepis sancta, known as “yaban kıskısı” in Turkish, is native to South Europe, Southwest Asia and Northwest India. It is an annual plant with yellow flowers, and grows up to 65 cm in length. It blooms between February and August and is found in woodland, rocky volcanic or limestone slopes, Artemisia L. steppe, lush grass slopes, sandy clay, sand dunes, and fallow fields.

 

References:

Davis PH (1975). Crepis sancta (L.) Bornm., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 834.

Ekim T (2012). Crepis L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 150–154.