Hieracium scouleri / western hawkweed
- dandelion-like yellow flower heads
- square-ended petals; long stamens with split ends
- central yellow “button”
- hairy all over, especially on leaves and lower stem
- blooms all summer
Also known as: Scouler’s woollyweed, Scouler’s hawkweed
This is a native perennial adapted to a variety of mountain habitats, especially those that are open shrubby or wooded, but also grasslands and meadows.
Western hawkweed produces a basal rosette of long, narrow (lance-shaped) leaves up to 8 inches long. Like some of the other hawkweeds, these are covered in long, even bristly, hairs.
Each plant produces an erect stem up to 2 feet tall (but usually much shorter in our area) in June through September. The inflorescences are in clusters at the top of it. Each flower head has long, bright yellow, ray-like florets. The involucre has large, curling bracts, also with glandular hairs or bristles.
A single stem with its open cluster may have between 10 and 25 flowerheads. Each head has between 15 and 50 petals with notches along their flat ends. In the center is a smaller number of long stamens, split at their tips.
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| Where? | coniferous forests, exposed, forest gaps and roadsides, meadows |
