Picris angustifolia

Annual to perennial, 7–140 cm high, with sparse to dense simple and mainly 2-fid hooked hairs; stems usually few-branched. Basal leaves petiolate to sessile, linear to narrow-ovate or oblanceolate, to 40 cm long and 3.5 cm wide, obtuse to acute, margins entire to dentate; lower cauline leaves similar but bases truncate to cordate; upper cauline leaves reduced, amplexicaul. Peduncles with up to 6 bracts close below capitulum; involucral bracts 2–18 mm long; outer bracts sometimes with lines of simple and 2-fid hooked hairs. Ligules 7–19 mm long. Cypselas mostly 3–11 mm long, beak usually shorter than body; pappus 4–10.5 mm long.