hawk's-beard

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A plant of the genus Crepis, allied to the hawkweeds and the dandelion. A few species, as Crepis rubra, are cultivated. See Crepis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; found in the Northern hemisphere.

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem; northern hemisphere