Crepis sancta

#460 They called me Crepis sancta, also known as Crepis kochii, Trichoseris rueppellii, and Pterotheca ruppellii. I pay homage to the male botanists Rueppell (I couldn’t find his records), Ruppell (I couldn’t find his records), and Karl Koch, Georg Friedrich Koch, Karl Heinrich Emil Koch, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Koch, or Wilhelm Daniel Joseph Koch. They first catalogued me in 1913.

Native to Albania, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russi, Spain, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia.