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Asteraceae
Hieracium

not marked as a favorite taxon Hieracium gronovii Linnaeus. Common name: Beaked Hawkweed, Queendevil. Phenology: Jul-Nov. Habitat: Longleaf pine sandhills, dry forests and woodlands, woodland margins, roadsides. Distribution: MA west to s. ON and KS, south to c. peninsular FL and TX; Mexico and Central America.

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Origin/Endemic status: Native

Synonymy ⓘ: = Ar, C, F, Fl7, FNA19, G, GrPl, Il, K4, Mi, NcTx, NE, NY, Oh3, Pa, POWO, RAB, S, SE1, Tn, Va, W, WH3, WV. Basionym: Hieracium gronovii L. 1753

Links to other floras: = Hieracium gronovii - FNA19

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Wetland Indicator Status:

  • Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain: UPL
  • Eastern Mountains and Piedmont: UPL
  • Great Plains: FACU
  • Midwest: UPL
  • Northcentral & Northeast: UPL

Heliophily ⓘ: 7

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image #1 of Hieracium gronovii© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
image #2 of Hieracium gronovii© Gary P. Fleming | Original Image ⭷
image #3 of Hieracium gronovii© Richard & Teresa Ware CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG | Original Image ⭷
image #4 of Hieracium gronovii© Joey Shaw source | Original Image ⭷
image #5 of Hieracium gronovii© Sonnia Hill | Original Image ⭷
image #6 of Hieracium gronovii© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷
image #7 of Hieracium gronovii© Bruce A. Sorrie | Original Image ⭷

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Horticultural Information

NCBG trait

Intro: Erect perennial with milky sap, found in sandhills, dry forests, woodland margins and roadsides.

Stems: Stems unbranched, very hairy especially at the base, oozing milky sap when broken.

Leaves: Leaves basal and alternate low on the stem (a few bract-like leaves above), short-petiolate to sessile, elliptic to oblong-lance-shaped, to 4 in. long (reduced upward), lacking the red veins of some other Hieracium species, very hairy.

Inforescence:

Flowers: Composite flowers (heads) in narrow, terminal cluster with alternate, glandular-hairy branches; heads 1/2-3/4 in. wide, consisting of 12-20 yellow, 3-toothed ray florets (no disk florets). A series of green or purplish, linear bracts surround the cylinder-shaped base of each head.

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Height: 1-3 ft.

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description: Erect perennial with milky sap, found in sandhills, dry forests, woodland margins and roadsides.

stems: Stems unbranched, very hairy especially at the base, oozing milky sap when broken.

leaves: Leaves basal and alternate low on the stem (a few bract-like leaves above), short-petiolate to sessile, elliptic to oblong-lance-shaped, to 4 in. long (reduced upward), lacking the red veins of some other Hieracium species, very hairy.

inflorescence:

flowers: Composite flowers (heads) in narrow, terminal cluster with alternate, glandular-hairy branches; heads 1/2-3/4 in. wide, consisting of 12-20 yellow, 3-toothed ray florets (no disk florets). A series of green or purplish, linear bracts surround the cylinder-shaped base of each head.

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native range: eastern North America



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