Not to be confused with : Goatsbeard [another Daisy and Dandelion Family plant with similar name].

No relation to : Goat's Rue or Goat Willow [plants with similar names but differing families].

There are two related plants with the name Beaked Hawksbeard:

• Crepis vesicaria This one is common in the UK south of Leeds, less so in Wales.
• Crepis tectorum This one is much less common, found in only 4 hectads, all south of Newcastle.

The above photographs are of the former.

Some similarities to : Common Catsear (but that has smooth semi-glossy hairless leaves), Rough Hawkbit (but that has single un-branched stems with a single flower atop), Rough Hawksbeard (but that is taller with deeply lobed dandelion-type leaves with stalks on the stem) and Bristly Oxtongue (but that has a single row of very wide sepal-like bracts below the sepals, as well as pimples on the leaves where bristles emerge).

Hawksbeards tend to have a basal rosette of deeply-lobed dandelion-type leaves but they are easily distinguished from other similar plants such as Hawkbits, Hawkweeds and Catsears by their double row of spreading sepal-like bracts below the sepals.

Beaked Hawksbeard inhabits waste places waysides and walls. It was established in 1713 and is still spreading northwards. The stem is often reddish. It has a few stem leaves which clasp the stem and are deeply lobed. The basal leaves are few in number, deeply lobed, and with a red mid-rib. The Dandelion-type flowers have a red stripe on visible on the underside of the outer ray florets, but so do a few other Dandelion-type flowers such as Smooth Hawksbeard, Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Cat's-ear and Great Lettuce.

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