Annuals, 5-100 cm (taproots slender). Stems 1, erect, simple, proximally hispid and stipitate-glandular (viscid), distally gla­brous. Leaves basal and cauline; petiolate; blades oblanceolate or runcinate, 1-24 × 1-5 cm, (bases attenuate) margins deeply pinnately lobed to denticulate (lobes triangular, terminal lobes largest), apices obtuse to acute, faces densely stipitate-glandular (viscid). Heads 10-40, in loose, corymbiform arrays. Calyculi of 5-7, ovate or lanceolate, glabrous bractlets 1-2 mm. Involucres cylindric (turbinate in fruit), 8-12 × 3-5 mm. Phyllaries 10-14, (green medially) lanceolate, 8-10 mm, (bases strongly keeled and thickened, margins scarious), apices acute, faces glabrous. Florets 15-30; corollas light yellow, 5-12 mm. Cypselae (monomorphic or dimorphic) green to yellowish brown, subcylindric, outer 5-6 mm, inner 4-5 mm, apices attenuate (not beaked), ribs 10-12; pappi dusky white (very fine, fluffy), 4-5 mm. 2n = 8. Flowering Apr-Aug. Dry open habitats, rolling grasslands, pastures, abandoned fields, waste areas, railroads, roadsides; 0-3000 m; introduced; Ont.; Ala., Ark., D.C., Ga., Ill., Ind., Ky., La., Md., Miss., Mo., N.C., Ohio, Okla., Oreg., S.C., Tenn., Tex., Va., W.Va.; Eurasia. Crepis pulchra is identified by its annual habit; solitary, erect, glandular, and viscid stems; narrowly oblanceolate, runcinate, hispid leaves with relatively large terminal segments; glabrous and strongly keeled phyllaries; sometimes dimorphic cypselae; and fluffy, dusky white pappi.