{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{Speciesbox |image = Crepis rubra.jpg |genus = Crepis |species = rubra |authority = L. |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = {{collapsible list|bullets = true |title=<small>Synonymy</small> |''Anisoderis rubra'' <small>(L.) Cass.</small> |''Barkhausia auriculifolia'' <small>Rchb.</small> |''Barkhausia rubra'' <small>(L.) Moench</small> |''Crepis auriculifolia'' <small>Froel.</small> |''Crepis incarnata'' <small>Vis.</small> |''Hieracioides rubrum'' <small>(L.) Kuntze</small> |''Hostia rubra'' (L.) Cass. |''Picris rubra'' <small>(L.) Lam.</small> }}}}
'''''Crepis rubra''''' is a European species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae with the common name '''red hawksbeard'''<ref>{{PLANTS|id=CRRU9|taxon=Crepis rubra|accessdate=17 January 2016}}</ref> or '''pink hawk's-beard'''.<ref name=BSBI07>{{BSBI 2007 |accessdate=2014-10-17 }}</ref> 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).<ref name=gerta>[http://luirig.altervista.org/flora/taxa/index1.php?scientific-name=crepis+rubra Altervista Flora Italiana, Radicchiella rosea, Pink Hawksbeard, Red Hawksbeard, Crépide rouge, roter Pippau, rosenfibbla, ''Crepis rubra'' L.]</ref><ref>[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Crepis%20rubra.png Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map]</ref><ref>[http://www.bio.bas.bg/~phytolbalcan/PDF/15_1/15_1_07_Peev_%26_al.pdf Peev, 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</ref>
''Crepis rubra '' is an annual up to {{convert|40|cm|in|abbr=on}} 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.<ref>[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=250066453 Flora of North America, Red hawksbeard ''Crepis rubra'' Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 806. 1753. ]</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.first-nature.com/flowers/crepis-rubra.php First Nature] *[http://www.funghiitaliani.it/?showtopic=27502 Associazione Micologica e Botanica, Funghi e Fiori in Italia] in Italian with photos *[http://www.greekmountainflora.info/Lowland/slides/Crepis%20rubra.html Greek Mountain Flora] photo
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rubra Category:Flora of Southeastern Europe Category:Flora of Western Asia Category:Plants described in 1753 Category:Botanical taxa named by Carl Linnaeus {{Cichorieae-stub}}