689

Forb
Perennial
Has milky sap (latex)

Non-native: Europe
Documented growing wild in GA NC SC

Rare

Look for it in fields, pastures, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora

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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!

• Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p360
• Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p135
• Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p176

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

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Hieracium piloselloides   FAMILY Asteraceae_

GREATER THAN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hieracium piloselloides   FAMILY Asteraceae_

(?) VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (1968) 179-10-004:
Hieracium florentinum   FAMILY Asteraceae_

GREATER THAN Synthesis of the North American Flora (Kartesz, 1999)
Hieracium praealtum var. decipiens

SYNONYMOUS WITH Pilosella piloselloides