Garden-Notes

Crepis barbata or Purple-eyed Succory Hawkweed

Crepis barbata. Bearded Crepis, or Purple-eyed Succory-Hawkweed
Class and Order
Syngenesia Polygamia Æqualis
Generic Character
Recept. nudum. Cal. calyculatus squamis deciduis. Pappus plumosus, stipitatus
Specific Character and Synonyms

CREPIS barbata involucris calyce longioribus: squamis setaceis sparsis. Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 719.

HIERACIUM proliferum falcatum. Bauh. Pin. 128.

HIERACIUM calyce barbato. Col. ecphr. 2. p. 28. t. 27. f. 1.

HIERACIUM boeticum medio nigro. Herm. Parad. Bat. 185. t. 185.


Grows spontaneously in the south of France, about Montpelier; also, in Spain, Italy, Sicily, and elsewhere in the south of Europe: is one of the most common annuals cultivated in our gardens. It begins flowering in July, and continues to blossom till the frost sets in.

No other care is necessary in the cultivation of this species than sowing the seeds in the spring, in little patches, on the borders where they are to remain, thinning them if they prove too numerous.

Miller calls this species bœtica, and improperly describes the centre of the flower as black, as also does Herman: in all the specimens we have seen, it has evidently been of a deep purple color, or, as Linnæus expresses it, atropurpurascens.

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