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WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hieracium gronovii
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
Go to FSUS key
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Hawkweeds have either few/no stem leaves or several/many. Hairy Hawkweed has several, the basal ones elliptic and in a flat rosette, the higher ones smaller and narrower. The stem is 1-2 feet tall (rarely to 3 feet), long-hairy on the lower portion, shorter-hairy above. Read more at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hieracium gronovii
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)
Hieracium gronovii
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
To see larger pictures, click or hover over the thumbnails.
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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 jkm230509_3116
May Pickens County SC
Glassy Mountain Heritage Preserve
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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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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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 (Miller & Miller, 2005).
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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 (Duncan & Duncan, 1999).
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JK Marlow jkm0309m_21
September Greenville County SC
Leaves oblanceolate to elliptic, long pilose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
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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 (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968).
WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Hieracium gronovii
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Hieracium gronovii
FAMILY
Asteraceae_
SYNONYMOUS WITH
Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Hieracium gronovii
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
690
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry forests and woodlands, woodland margins, roadsides, per Weakley's Flora
Native to the Carolinas & Georgia
Common
CLICK HERE to see a map, notes, and images from Weakley's Flora of the Southeastern US.
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
Inferior ovary
Ray flowers bisexual
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 (Miller & Miller, 2005) p100
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 1st ed. (Porcher & Rayner, 2001) p398
- Guide to the Wildflowers of SC, 2nd ed. (McMillan, Porcher, Rayner, & White; 2022) p548
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p368
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p280
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p135
- Field Guide to the Wildflowers of Georgia (Chafin, 2016) p091
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p309
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p358
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p176
- Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region (Sorrie, 2011) p060
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