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Marsh Hawk's-beard, Crepis paludosa
Photos: Coombaugh, Co.Waterford

Marsh Hawk's-beard, Crepis paludosa

Marsh Hawk's-beard
Crepis paludosa
Lus cúráin corraigh
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering June - September. Perennial. Native.

Yellow flowerheads in loose corymbs, involucre-bracts woolly-hairy, hairs with sticky black tips. Leaves oval or lanceolate, hairless, +/- wavy-toothed.
Stems only branched from upper stem. Height 30-90cm.

Frequent on rocky ground, streamsides, wet pastures in mountainous areas of NW, scattered and occasional elsewhere in Ireland.

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