Israel wildflowers: Hawk’s beard
Crepis aspera, Hawk’s beard,
Hebrew: ניסנית זיפנית, Arabic: سَراغَة جاسِئَة
| Scientific name: | Crepis aspera L. | |
| Common name: | Hawk’s beard | |
| Hebrew name: | ניסנית זיפנית | |
| Arabic name: | سَراغَة جاسِئَة | |
| Plant Family: | Compositae / Asteraceae, מורכבים |
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| Life form: | Therophyte, annual | |
| Spinescence: | Leaves, emergences | |
| Stems: | 15-50 cm high, flowering stems erect, sulcate, often tinged purple towards base, glabrous to hispid with yellowish or black-based bristles | |
| Leaves: | Alternate, entire, dentate or serrate, spinescent | |
| Flowers: | Yellow | |
| Fruits / pods: | Achenes dimorphic or homomorphic; pappus white, caducous, flexible, minutely scabridulous | |
| Flowering Period: | March, April, May, June | |
| Habitat: | Batha, Phrygana | |
| Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon | |
| Chorotype, טיפוס התפוצה: | Mediterranean | |
| Summer shedding: | Ephemeral |
 Derivation of the botanical name: Crepis, Greek krepis, krepidos “a boot, foundation, pedestal,” Latin crepis for an unknown plant (Plinius); Theophrastus used krepis for oxtongue, Helminthia echioides (Theophrastus, Enquiry into plants, book VII. viii. 3). aspera, rough.
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