Common name:
Hawkweed
Family:
Scientific name:
Hieracium Aggregate
Main flower color:
Range:
All across the UK; over 250 separate species, all very similar
Height:
Up to 80 cm
Habitat:
Heaths, cliffs, grassland, roadsides, open woodland
Flowers:
Open clusters of yellow flowerheads attached by hairy pedicels, and subtended by bristly and/or hairy bracts, overlapping, and in several rows. Florets are not red-striped underneath
Leaves:
Broadly to narrowly ovate, unlobed, hairless or hairy, lined by a few relatively large teeth; in basal rosette and (for some species) cauline
Season:
June to September
Rarity:
★★★★★
