Crepis mollis(Jacq.) Asch.

WFO wfo-0000000138 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Crepis mollis, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. a Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-10 / obs. 204926978
Crepis mollis, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. b Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204955497
Crepis mollis, photographed by Thomas Ebner
fig. c Thomas Ebner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202223800
Crepis mollis, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. d Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204926947
Crepis mollis, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. e Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204955537
Crepis mollis, photographed by Thomas Ebner
fig. f Thomas Ebner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202223819
Crepis mollis, photographed by Vladimír Fuka
fig. g Vladimír Fuka, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204927040
Crepis mollis, photographed by Thomas Ebner
fig. h Thomas Ebner, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202223843

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Native range 18 botanical countries

Regions where Crepis mollis is native: Albania, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine AlbaniaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNorthwest European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSpainSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Crepis mollis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
Northwest European Russia RUW
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Spain SPA
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR

Not drawn on the map: Great Britain. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 72 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -8.5 °C -4.9 °C -3.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 17.8 °C 20.0 °C 23.3 °C
Annual rainfall 609 mm 1,142 mm 1,930 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 104 mm 246 mm 427 mm

It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 72 research-grade observations of Crepis mollis that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 38 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Aracium succisaefolium D.Dietr.
  • Aracium succisifolium (All.) D.Dietr.
  • Crepis croatica (Waldst. & Kit.) Schloss. & Vuk.
  • Crepis hieracioides Willd.
  • Crepis hieracioides Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd.
  • Crepis hieracioides var. croatica (Waldst. & Kit.) Froel.
  • Crepis hieracioides var. glabrifolia Froel.
  • Crepis hieracioides var. gracilis Willd. ex Froel.
  • Crepis hieracioides var. sternbergii Froel.
  • Crepis hieracioides var. succisifolia (All.) Froel.
  • Crepis integrifolia Dulac
  • Crepis mollis subsp. hieracioides (Domin) Domin
  • Crepis mollis var. croatica (Waldst. & Kit.) Asch.
  • Crepis mollis var. nuda (Gren. & Godr.) Gren.
  • Crepis mollis var. submollis Beck
  • Crepis planitierum Klokov
  • Crepis succisifolia subsp. hieracioides Domin
  • Crepis succisifolia subsp. succisifolia
  • Crepis succisifolia subsp. velenovskyi Domin
  • Crepis succisifolia var. glabra Neilr.
  • Crepis succisifolia var. glabrifolia Froel.
  • Crepis succisifolia var. gracilis Froel.
  • Crepis succisifolia var. integrifolia W.D.J.Koch
  • Crepis succisifolia var. mollis (Jacq.) W.D.J.Koch

and 14 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.