Crepis rubra is a European species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae with the common name red hawksbeard or pink hawk's-beard. It is native to the eastern Mediterranean region (Italy, Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Asia Minor) and is widely cultivated as an ornamental. It became naturalized in a small region of the United States (Marin County just north of San Francisco Bay in California).Altervista Flora Italiana, Radicchiella rosea, Pink Hawksbeard, Red Hawksbeard, Crépide rouge, roter Pippau, rosenfibbla, Crepis rubra L.Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution mapPeev, D., S. Stoyanov, M. Dalcheva, N. Valyovska. 2009. The pink flowering Crepis rubra, new for the Bulgarian flora. Phytologia Balcanica 15(1):59-62. includes photos and Bulgarian distribution map
Crepis rubra is an annual up to tall. Each plant will usually produce only one or two flower heads, each with as many as 100 pink or red ray florets but no disc florets. It grows in rocky fields and meadows.Flora of North America, Red hawksbeard Crepis rubra Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 806. 1753.
References
External links First Nature Associazione Micologica e Botanica, Funghi e Fiori in Italia in Italian with photos Greek Mountain Flora photo