Orange Hawkweed

Hieracium aurantiacum L.
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Status:
County Declared
Priority 1
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Description

Growth Habit: Herbaceous perennial, erect to 10 - 24 inches tall. Leaves: Basal leaves, lance-shaped, rounded, hairy, occasionally 1 to 2 leaves on stem. Stems: Erect, bristly, terminate in an umble of flowerheads. Flowers: Red-orange, multi-petaled, petal tips are notched, 5 - 30 per plant, formed in umbles. Roots: Fibrous. Reproduction: seeds: small black, 12 to 50 per flower; wind dispersed; vegetative: new shoots are formed on stolons and rhizomes

Origin and Spread

Native to Eurasia

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