Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia

Crupina
(Crupina vulgaris)

Photo courtesy Dean Swan, Washington State University

Provincial Noxious Weed
annual growing from 0.3 to 0.9 metres tall; short, stiff hairs on leaf margins make the plant prickly feeling; 1 to 5 flowerheads per branch; pink to purple flowers
Note: Crupina currently invading rangelands in northern Idaho and Oregon.
Not known from British Columbia. Please report sitings.

	Stiff dark bristles on seed Photo courtesy Loal Vance, Idaho Department of Agriculture
	Narrow flowerhead with pink to purple flowers Photo courtesy Dean Swan, Washington State University (retired)