Crepis praemorsa(L.) Walther

WFO wfo-0000135673 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Crepis praemorsa, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. a Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203236444
Crepis praemorsa, photographed by Иван Шихалев
fig. b Иван Шихалев, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 134539375
Crepis praemorsa, photographed by nicoweg
fig. c nicoweg, CC0 1.0 / obs. 133343516
Crepis praemorsa, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. d Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75879497
Crepis praemorsa, photographed by Alexander Dubynin
fig. e Alexander Dubynin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75681182
Crepis praemorsa, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 75397114
Crepis praemorsa, photographed by Константин Селивёрстов
fig. g Константин Селивёрстов, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 59275330
Crepis praemorsa, photographed by Силаева Татьяна Борисовна
fig. h Силаева Татьяна Борисовна, CC0 1.0 / obs. 137620784

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Native range 35 botanical countries

Regions where Crepis praemorsa is native: Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tuva, West Siberia, Yakutiya, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine AltayBuryatiyaChitaIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaNorth CaucasusTuvaWest SiberiaYakutiyaAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBelgiumBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaDenmarkEast European RussiaFinlandFranceGermanyHungaryItalyNorth European RussiaNorthwest European RussiaNorwayNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSwedenSwitzerlandUkraine
Native distribution of Crepis praemorsa, 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
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Belgium BGM
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Denmark DEN
East European Russia RUE
Finland FIN
France FRA
Germany GER
Great Britain GRB
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
North European Russia RUN
Northwest European Russia RUW
Norway NOR
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
Sweden SWE
Switzerland SWI
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Yakutiya YAK

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 681 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low -25.7 °C -16.0 °C -3.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 20.6 °C 23.2 °C 25.1 °C
Annual rainfall 392 mm 591 mm 908 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 29 mm 89 mm 165 mm

It is found where winters are arctic. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 681 research-grade observations of Crepis praemorsa 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 21 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.

  • Crepis fistulosa Fisch. ex Turcz.
  • Crepis praemorsa (L.) Tausch
  • Crepis praemorsa subsp. caucasigena (L.) Menitsky
  • Crepis praemorsa subsp. praemorsa
  • Crepis praemorsa subsp. tatrensis
  • Crepis praemorsa var. composita Murr
  • Crepis praemorsa var. glabra (Czetz) Jáv.
  • Crepis praemorsa var. glabrata Froel.
  • Crepis praemorsa var. glabrescens Vollm.
  • Crepis praemorsa var. leiophylla Borb.
  • Crepis praemorsa var. subpseudopraemorsa Murr
  • Crepis racemiforme Cariot & St.-Lag.
  • Crepis racemosa Cariot & St.-Lag.
  • Crepis racemosa St.-Lag.
  • Geracium glabrum Czetz
  • Geracium praemorsum var. glabrum Czetz
  • Geracium praemorsum var. praemorsum
  • Hieracioides praemorsa (L.) Kuntze
  • Hieracium praemorsum L.
  • Hieracium spicatum Gilib.
  • Intybus praemorsus (L.) Fr.

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.