Picris rhagadioloides (L.) Desf. / Heterotypic Synonyms: Crepis sprengeriana (L.) All., Picris altissima Delile, it is a herbaceous plant, hermaphrodite. Stems cylindrical, branched, with hooked hairs, from 4 to 5 mm in diameter. Leaves at the base and alternate, with stiff and hooked hairs, those of the base simple, oblong to obovate, from 12 to 15 cm long, from 33 to 43 mm across, lengthily spatulate, lobed, with undulated edges, stem-leaves simple, linear, entire, 5 cm long, 9 mm across, with 2 small clasping basal lobes. Flowers joined together in numerous capitula, from 18 to 30 mm in diameter, with peduncles very long, spread out, divaricated, nonswollen at the top, with only ray-florets, bright yellow, self-coloured, with reddish brown veins in the lower part. Involucre with 2 rows of linear to lanceolate bracts, with hooked hairs, the external ones shorter than the internal ones, widened out in nacelle at fructification. Ovary inferior. Fruits, achenes with pappus, brown, glabrous, curved, crescent-shaped, from 2.5 to 3 mm long, less than 1 mm across, with 12 to 18 very protruding transversal awns, with beak tiny or null. External achenes with short pappus of rough hairs, interior achenes with a long pappus of feathery hairs.
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