Israel wildflowers: Holy’s Hawk’s-beard
Crepis sancta, Lagoseris obovata, Lagoseris sancta, Holy’s Hawk’s-beard,
Hebrew: ניסנית דו קרנית, Arabic: حوذان , صفيره
| Scientific name: | Crepis sancta (L.) Bornm. | |
| Synonym name: | Lagoseris obovata (Boiss. et Noe) Bornm., Lagoseris sancta (L.) K.Maly | |
| Common name: | Holy’s Hawk’s-beard | |
| Hebrew name: | ניסנית דו קרנית | |
| Arabic name: | حوذان , صفيره | |
| Plant Family: | Compositae / Asteraceae, מורכבים |
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| Life form: | Annual | |
| Stems: | 3-55 cm high; flowering stems scapelike, erect or spreading-erect, sulcate, subglabrous or glandular, unbranched with a single head or branched near apex | |
| Leaves: | Alternare, rosette, emtire, dentate or serrate | |
| Flowers: | Yellow | |
| Fruits / pods: | Achenes dimorphic or sometimes trimorphic, sometimes homomorphic; outer achenes cylindrical, inner achenes narrowly fusiform; pappus white, scabridulous | |
| Flowering Period: | February, March, April | |
| Habitat: | Batha, Phrygana, Shrub-steppes, Desert | |
| Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon | |
| Chorotype: | Med – Saharo-Arabian | |
| 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).
sancta, sancio, to make sacred; sacred.
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