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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Pilosella officinarum
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
INCLUDING
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hieracium pilosella var. pilosella
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
New treatment of Pilosella for EuroMediterranean flora (Brautigam & Greuter, 2007)
Pilosella officinarum
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-10-001:
Hieracium pilosella
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
COMMON NAME:
Mouse-ear Hawkweed
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JK Marlow jkm090607_050
June Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Nutlets lustrous black, columnar, 2-2.3mm long; pappus 4-6mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm090607_078
June Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Rarely more than one flower head per scape. Rays light yellow and 5-toothed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm090607_083
June Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Involucres 7-12mm long, clothed with black trichomes and stipitate glands, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of DYCs with ray flowers only (no disc)
JK Marlow jkm090610_089
June Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Abundantly stoloniferous, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
JK Marlow s090607_03
June Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaves oblanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate, leaf base cuneate to attenuate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
JK Marlow jkm060813_138
August Haywood County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
Leaves basal, white woolly beneath, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.