Scientific Name
Hieracium pilosella
Common Name
Mouse-ear hawkweed
Wildflowers
Plant Fact Sheets
Consumer Hort
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Height:
8 to 10 inches
Flower/fruit:
1 inch single yellow dandelion-like flower; sometimes two or three flowers; bracts covered with stiff, long hairs and glands
Flowering Season:
Summer into early fall
Foliage:
No stem leaves; 1 to 5 inch oblong basal leaves; white woolly below
Site:
Fields, roadsides, sparse woodlands
Comments:
Often grows in large colonies
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