About Crepis rubra L.
Crepis rubra L., commonly called red hawksbeard or pink hawk's-beard, is a European flowering plant species in the family Asteraceae. It is native to the eastern Mediterranean region, including Italy, Greece, Albania, North Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Asia Minor. It is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant, and has become naturalized in a small area of the United States: Marin County, located just north of San Francisco Bay in California. This species is an annual that grows up to 40 cm (16 inches) tall. Each individual plant typically produces only one or two flower heads. Each flower head contains up to 100 pink or red ray florets, and has no disc florets. It grows in rocky fields and meadows.
