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Crepis capillaris (L.) Wallr.

Smooth hawksbeard; Green crepis; Hawksbeard

Asteraceae · Denmark, Great Britain +27

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Crepis capillaris, photograph (c) Elliot Greiner, some rights reserved (CC BY)Crepis capillaris, photograph (c) Markus Krieger, some rights reserved (CC BY)Crepis capillaris, photograph (c) Elias, some rights reserved (CC BY)Crepis capillaris, photograph (c) Andrew Thomas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)Crepis capillaris, photograph (c) Bartosz Czołczyński, some rights reserved (CC BY)Crepis capillaris, photograph (c) Bartosz Czołczyński, some rights reserved (CC BY) 76 photographs ›
Habitat figures
Cold floor (1 night in 100)
-8.8°C
Record low -17.6 °C in 44 years, at a typical spot in the range NASA POWER
Warmest month, mean daily high
22°C
Jul and Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
874mm
12 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
4–34DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Rain spread: 70% of the median year's rain takes 8 months, so no short rainy season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Crepis capillaris, the smooth hawksbeard, is a species of flowering plant in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae, and is native to Europe. It has become naturalized in other lands and is regarded as a weed in some places.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Crepis capillaris", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads no short rainy season: 70% of the median year's rain (629 mm of 873 mm) takes 8 months, June to January. Mean temperature moves 15.1 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to July.

Rain

873 mm in the median year at the habitat, 629 mm of it June to January. Wettest months (2 at 83 mm), driest month April at 48 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 699 mm to 1,173 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 874 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 873 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 4 to 34 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 3, the highest 90th-percentile month 44).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -8.8 °C, the absolute minimum -17.6 °C, 2,749 frost nights in 44 years, 62.5 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 28.5 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 0.4 °C in February (across the grid cells of the range -2.4 °C to 3.7 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 22.0 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -8.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 60 to 69% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +3 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Crepis capillaris through the yearWarmest months July and August, mean daily high 22 °C; coldest month February, mean nightly low 0.4 °C; 873 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA; the extremes at the edge from NASA POWER. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.-20°-10°0°10°20°30°frost28.5° 99th-percentile day, NASA POWER-17.6° lowest night in 44 years, NASA POWER°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125mm rainDLI 4–34RH 60–69%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 466 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low extremes over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, from NASA POWER, marked at the edge, in no month DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C5 / 3–106 / 4–1110 / 7–1413 / 11–1517 / 14–1920 / 17–2222 / 20–2422 / 20–2518 / 16–2214 / 13–189 / 7–136 / 3–10
Night °C1 / -3–40 / -2–43 / 0–55 / 3–79 / 7–1012 / 11–1314 / 13–1614 / 13–1611 / 10–148 / 6–114 / 2–71 / -1–5
Rain mm77 / 59–9661 / 46–8269 / 49–8948 / 43–8966 / 50–10372 / 49–8980 / 32–9576 / 42–9776 / 56–9683 / 69–11482 / 66–11683 / 64–121
DLI5 / 4–1110 / 9–1717 / 16–2627 / 26–3333 / 32–3834 / 33–4433 / 32–4428 / 27–3919 / 18–2912 / 10–196 / 5–124 / 3–9
RH %68 / 62–6965 / 61–6663 / 60–6460 / 58–6260 / 58–6260 / 58–6261 / 58–6361 / 59–6363 / 61–6465 / 63–6667 / 63–6869 / 63–70
How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 466 grid cells on land that hold in-range records (489 records in those cells; 39 more cells hold records but no land by the elevation layer, so those records sit at sea and the cells are left out), with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 760:3710 (51.975, 5.525). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -17.6 °C, 1st-percentile night -8.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 28.5 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 466 distinct grid cells holding 489 of the 528 in-range records (39 further cells with records at sea, by the elevation layer, left out); extremes and elevation at the typical cell 760:3710 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 52.00_5.625, lapse-corrected +3 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 18 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeDenmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, Corse, France, Portugal, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, Romania, Sicilia, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Transcaucasus · introduced: Azores, Canary Is., Madeira, Cape Provinces, KwaZulu-Natal, West Himalaya, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia, Chatham Is., New Zealand North, Hawaii, Alaska, Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Vermont, West Virginia, California, Nevada, Utah, Texas, Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, District of Columbia, Mexico Gulf, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Juan Fernández Is., Tristan da Cunha · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker51.007, 4.96 · in the densest population, 293 records (52% of those in range)
Kew's description“annual or biennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 562 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 489 of them in the land cells it reads, of 528 placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 133 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 573 km away. 97 records outside the WCVP native range not used. 34 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 562 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Elliot Greiner, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Markus Krieger, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Elias, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Andrew Thomas, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA); (c) Bartosz Czołczyński, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Myosotis arvensis Myosotis arvensis Field forget-me-not Photo: CC BY, Ondřej KřivanSisymbrium officinale Sisymbrium officinale Hedge mustard Photo: CC0, author not statedAllium vineale Allium vineale Crow garlic Photo: CC0, author not statedPersicaria amphibia Persicaria amphibia Amphibious bistort Photo: CC BY, Sandy WolkenbergArabidopsis thaliana Arabidopsis thaliana Mouse-ear cress Photo: CC BY, Leon PerriePolygonum aviculare Polygonum aviculare Prostrate knotweed Photo: CC BY, Daughter Dad

Other Crepis 23 in the reference

Crepis albida Crepis albida Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Jens-Christian SvenningCrepis alpestris Crepis alpestris Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Wolfgang JauchCrepis aurea Crepis aurea Golden hawk's-beard Photo: CC BY, EliasCrepis biennis Crepis biennis Rough hawk's-beard Photo: CC0, author not statedCrepis blattarioides Crepis blattarioides Asteraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dominique RoizotCrepis bursifolia Crepis bursifolia Italian hawksbeard Photo: CC BY, Adam J. SearcyCrepis foetida Crepis foetida Stinking hawk's-beard Photo: CC0, author not stated Crepis granatensis Asteraceae Crepis mollis Crepis mollis Northern Hawk's-beard Photo: CC BY-SA, C. OppermannCrepis paludosa Crepis paludosa Marsh hawk's-beard Photo: CC BY, PhilokretesCrepis pontana Crepis pontana Asteraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCrepis praemorsa Crepis praemorsa Leafless hawk's-beard Photo: CC0, author not stated all 24 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Berinia pinnatifida; Berinia stricta; Crepis agrestis; Crepis bauhiniana; Crepis biennis var. agrestis and 80 more. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Crepis pulchra Scop. and Crepis pulchra Scop. ex Steud. is an older name of this species, not Crepis pulchra, a species of the reference; Crepis tectorum Huds. is an older name of this species, not Crepis tectorum, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asteraceae
Described by
(L.) Wallr.
Native to
Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland +26
Wild records
562 in range · 133 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence search API; 35 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (19 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 8 at a herbarium, 8 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-22
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-22NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 52.00_5.625, lapse-corrected +3 m at 6.5 °C/km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Crepis capillaris (L.) Wallr. (the item's: IPNI 247873-3, POWO 199753-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 16 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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