Common Hawkweed – blossom

Hieracium lachenalii

Hieracium lachenalii, also known as Common Hawkweed or Yellow Hawkweed is a woodland perennial which makes its home in fields and on roadsides.

This common weed can grow and produce flowers on plants that range from 4 inches (10 centimeters) to 36 inches (1 meter) tall. The rhizome is short and stout. The broadly elliptic leaves can be up to 5 inches (12 centimeters) long and taper with teeth towards the base. The flower heads have only petal-bearing ligulate (ray) florets and lack non-petal bearing tubular or disc florets (eg. as seen in the center of the sunflower head), each petal is a complete flower in itself, not lacking stamens. Bracts surround the flower head; the receptacle (basal part of the flower on which the florets are attached) is flat and naked; heads tend to start together then become somewhat solitary on long leafless stems. The stalks below the heads are covered with scattered, simple and gland-tipped black hairs and contain a milky substance.

The pale yellow flowers are produced during all of the summer months. The fruit are dark brown achenes.

Native to most of Europe, Hieracium lachenalii was introduced to Newfoundland and Quebec, to New Jersey, Minnesota, and to Australia. It can sometimes be found in soils that have been disturbed.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieracium_lachenalii – 27.09.2011

Common Hawkweed

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