Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Hieracium gronovii
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
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Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Read more about Hairy Hawkweed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hieracium gronovii
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-10-008:
Hieracium gronovii
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hieracium gronovii
COMMON NAME:
Hairy Hawkweed, Beaked Hawkweed
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_higr3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm120727_888
July Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120727_891
July Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190726_0298
July Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm120825_969
August Greenville County SC
Jones Gap State Park
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JK Marlow jkm170826_731
August Spartanburg County SC
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JK Marlow jkm170826_735
August Spartanburg County SC
Involucres 6-8mm long, 3-5mm broad, usually stipitate-glandular, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of DYCs with ray flowers only (no disc)
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JK Marlow jkm170826_740
August Spartanburg County SC
Hieracium has only ray flowers (no disk flowers), and the rays are 5-toothed, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm0309f_06
September Greenville County SC
Yellow petals extend slightly from a tight cylindric involucre, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
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JK Marlow jkm0309m_20
September Greenville County SC
Creekside/Riverside
Leaves prominent from base to midstem or higher, per Wildflowers of the Eastern United States.
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JK Marlow jkm0309m_21
September Greenville County SC
Leaves oblanceolate to elliptic, long pilose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
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JK Marlow jkm120908_376
September Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm120910_673682
September Greenville County SC
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Steve Marlow snm091012_075
September Greenville County SC
Nutlets fusiform. Pappus tan, 4-6mm long, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Hieracium gronovii
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hieracium gronovii
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-10-008:
Hieracium gronovii
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Hieracium gronovii
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Forb
Perennial
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry forests and woodlands, woodland margins, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora
NEW! Click here to see a map from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US showing range and abundance.
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DOES THE PLANT HAVE "MILKY SAP"?
Has milky sap (latex)
LEAVES:
Simple
Mostly basal & low alternate (reduced upward)
FLOWER:
Summer/Fall
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Absent
Ray flowers bisexual
Inferior ovary
FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Black
Achene
TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!
- Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses p100
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC p398
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide p368
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast p280
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States p135
- Wildflowers of Tennessee p309
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians p358
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains p176
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region p060