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
Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.
Check out EDDMapS.org to see where this has been reported.
Read more about Field Hawkweed at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.
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
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_hipr_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm140519_863
May Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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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).
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JK Marlow jkm140519_865
May Jackson County NC
Big Ridge Preserve
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JK Marlow jkm090607_060b
June Transylvania County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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JK Marlow jkm090607_093
June Jackson County NC
Blue Ridge Parkway
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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).
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JK Marlow jkm070721_078
July NC-TN
The Roan Highlands
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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).
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_
692
Forb
Perennial
Habitat: Pastures, fields, roadsides, grassy balds, per Weakley's Flora
Non-native: Europe
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
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!
- Great Smoky Mountains Wildflowers (Campbell, Hutson, Sharp, & Hutson, 1962) p084
- Invasive Plants, Guide to Identification, Impacts and Control (Kaufman & Kaufman, 2007) p238
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide (Newcomb, 1977) p360
- Wildflowers of the Atlantic Southeast (Cotterman, Waitt, & Weakley, 2019) p301
- Wildflowers of the Eastern United States (Duncan & Duncan, 1999) p135
- Wild Flowers of NC, 2nd edition (Justice, Bell, & Lindsey, 2005) p248
- Wildflowers of Tennessee (Carman, 2005) p308
- Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005) p358
- Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p176
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