Crepis pontana(L.) Dalla Torre

WFO wfo-0000025580 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 pontana, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. a Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-07-16 / obs. 45345360
Crepis pontana, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. b Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45345382
Crepis pontana, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. c Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45345397
Crepis pontana, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. d Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45345391
Crepis pontana, photographed by Wolfgang Jauch
fig. e Wolfgang Jauch, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45345357

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Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Crepis pontana is native: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Switzerland AustriaFranceGermanyItalyNW. Balkan Pen.Switzerland
Native distribution of Crepis pontana, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
France FRA
Germany GER
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Switzerland SWI

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 47 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -15.2 °C -12.4 °C -7.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 13.5 °C 15.8 °C 19.5 °C
Annual rainfall 1,147 mm 1,759 mm 2,542 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 195 mm 312 mm 495 mm

It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 47 research-grade observations of Crepis pontana 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 14 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.

  • Andryala pontana (L.) Vill.
  • Crepis bocconei P.D.Sell
  • Crepis montana Tausch
  • Crepis montana Rchb.
  • Crepis montana var. hypochoeridiformis (Murr) Murr
  • Crepis pontana var. hypochoeridiformis (Murr) Beger
  • Hieracioides pontana (L.) Kuntze
  • Hieracium montanum Jacq.
  • Hieracium montanum subsp. montanum
  • Hypochaeris pontana L.
  • Omalocline montana Sch.Bip.
  • Soyeria montana Monnier
  • Soyeria montana (Jacq.) Monnier
  • Soyeria montana var. hypochoeridiformis Murr

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.