Crepis
(from krepis, a slipper). Hawksbeard. ORD. Compositae. About 130 species of hardy annuals or perennials, with slender, simple, white (rarely brown) silky pappus hairs, in many series; achenes cylindrical, striate, the beak long, short, or absent. Two only are worth growing. C. aurea is a neat border perennial, and C. rubra a pretty annual; both thrive in sandy soil. C. aurea may be propagated by division, in spring; and both by seed, sown at the same time, in the open border. Other species formerly included here will be found under Tolpis.
C. aurea (golden). fl.-heads orange, usually solitary; involucre and stem covered with long black hairs, mixed with a few small white wooly ones. Autumn. l. radical, spathulate, oblong, dentate,or runcinate, light green, shining. h. 4in. to 12in. Alps.
C. rubra (red).* fl.-heads red, usually solitary; involucre hispid, outer bracts scarious. Autumn. h. 6in. to 12in. Southern Europe. SYN. Barkhausia rubra. (S. F. G. 801.)