Crepis acuminata is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common name tapertip hawksbeard.

[2][3] Crepis acuminata is a perennial herb producing a woolly, branching stem up to about 70 centimeters (28 inches) tall from a taproot.

The inflorescence is an open array of flower heads at the top of the stem branches.

Each of the many flower heads is about 1.5–2.5 cm (5⁄8–1 in) wide[4] enveloped in smooth or hairy phyllaries.

The fruit is a narrow achene 7 or 8 millimetres (9⁄32 or 5⁄16 in) long tipped with a pappus of white hairlike bristles.