Hawksbeard
Crepis, commonly known in some parts of the world as hawksbeard or hawk's-beard is a genus of annual and perennial flowering plants of the family Asteraceae superficially resembling the dandelion
The most conspicuous difference being that Crepis usually has branching scapes with multiple heads (though solitary heads can occur)
Hawksbeard has branched, leafy flower stems, unlike dandelion
The genus name Crepis derives from the Greek krepis, meaning "slipper" or "sandal", possibly in reference to the shape of the fruit
The plant also resembles Hawkweed whose basal leaves are entire, not dentate to lobed, and leaves are typically densely hairy, while narrowleaf hawksbeard leaves are hairless to sparsely hairy.
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