Pronunciation: KREP-is ok-si-den-TAY-lis
Common name: Western hawksbeard
Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower)
Habitat: Dry rocky and stony places, 4000'-8000',
montane coniferous forest and sagebrush scrub, San
Bernardino and Tehachapi Mts, West Transverse
Range
Blooming period: June to August
Click for Latin name derivations: (1) Crepis
(2) occidentalis
Two vars. (occidentalis and pumila) in SoCal