Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Read more about Field Hawkweed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Pilosella caespitosa
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hieracium caespitosum
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
New treatment of Pilosella for EuroMediterranean flora (Brautigam & Greuter, 2007)
Pilosella caespitosa
(?)
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-10-003:
Hieracium pratense
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
COMMON NAME:
Field Hawkweed, Yellow King-devil, Meadow Hawkweed
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Look for it in pastures, fields, roadsides, grassy balds, per Weakley's Flora
Forb
Perennial
Non-native: Europe
Documented growing wild in
GA
NC
SC
Common
...Variable
DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)
LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal
FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: Golden-yellow
Disc: Absent
Ray flowers bisexual
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers p084
- Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control p238
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p360
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p135
- Wild Flowers of NC, 1st edition p187
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition p248
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p308
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p358
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p176
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