OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Pilosella caespitosa   FAMILY Asteraceae_   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hieracium caespitosum   FAMILY Asteraceae_

SYNONYMOUS WITH New treatment of Pilosella for EuroMediterranean flora (Brautigam & Greuter, 2007)

Pilosella caespitosa

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Hieracium caespitosum

(?) 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


         To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.

image of Pilosella caespitosa, Field Hawkweed, Yellow King-devil, Meadow Hawkweed

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_hipr_001_lvd

        

image of Pilosella caespitosa, Field Hawkweed, Yellow King-devil, Meadow Hawkweed

JK Marlow    jkm140519_863

May    Jackson County    NC

Big Ridge Preserve

image of Pilosella caespitosa, Field Hawkweed, Yellow King-devil, Meadow Hawkweed

JK Marlow    jkm140519_863b

May    Jackson County    NC

Big Ridge Preserve

There are several heads in a compact inflorescence, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Pilosella caespitosa, Field Hawkweed, Yellow King-devil, Meadow Hawkweed

JK Marlow    jkm140519_865

May    Jackson County    NC

Big Ridge Preserve

image of Pilosella caespitosa, Field Hawkweed, Yellow King-devil, Meadow Hawkweed

JK Marlow    jkm090607_060b

June    Transylvania County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Pilosella caespitosa, Field Hawkweed, Yellow King-devil, Meadow Hawkweed

JK Marlow    jkm090607_093

June    Jackson County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

image of Pilosella caespitosa, Field Hawkweed, Yellow King-devil, Meadow Hawkweed

JK Marlow    s090607_02

June    Transylvania County    NC

Blue Ridge Parkway

Leaves densely & softly hairy on both sides, oblanceolate to elliptic, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Pilosella caespitosa, Field Hawkweed, Yellow King-devil, Meadow Hawkweed

JK Marlow    jkm070721_078

July        NC-TN

The Roan Highlands

image of Pilosella caespitosa, Field Hawkweed, Yellow King-devil, Meadow Hawkweed

JK Marlow    jkm090707_002

July    Avery County    NC

The Roan Highlands

Stem & involucres have conspicuous black-tipped glandular hairs, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).


click here to see other plants that look similar to this COMPARE involucral bracts of DYCs with ray flowers only (no disc)

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
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

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Hieracium caespitosum

(?) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-10-003:
Hieracium pratense   FAMILY Asteraceae_

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

692

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Pastures, fields, roadsides, grassy balds, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Europe

Common

map
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.

Click here to see a map showing all occurrences known to SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria. (Zoom in to see more detail.)

DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)

LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Rays: Golden-yellow
Disc: Absent
Inferior ovary
Ray flowers bisexual

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Black
Achene

 

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!



 


Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME: