Hieracium longiberbe |
Hieracium pilosella |
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long-bearded hawkweed |
mouse-ear hawkweed |
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Habit | Plants 10–60 cm; taprooted. | Plants 4–35 cm; taprooted, stoloniferous. |
Stems | simple or branched, glabrous or pilose. |
simple, tomentulose and lightly stipitate-glandular throughout or only distally, sometimes pilose proximally. |
Leaves | cauline, rarely a few basal early, spatulate to oblanceolate, 5–15 cm, bases attenuate; margins entire or rarely denticulate; surfaces glabrous to lightly or densely pilose-setose, usually sessile. |
basal or occasionally 1 or 2 cauline near bases, oblanceolate, 2–10+ cm, bases attenuate; margins entire; surfaces glabrous or pilose-setose, sometimes tomentulose below; petioles short, winged. |
Inflorescences | panicle- or raceme-like arrays, bracteate or not. |
in raceme- or panicle-like arrays. |
Involucres | campanulate in flower; ovoid in fruit, 7–10 mm. |
campanulate in flower; ovoid in fruit, 7–9 mm. |
Florets | 12–30; ligules 10–15 mm, yellow. |
60–120+; ligules 10–15 mm, yellow. |
Phyllaries | linear-lanceolate; surfaces densely long-setose with brown or black hairs; inner 10–16; outer gradually shorter. |
linear-lanceolate; surfaces densely stipitate-glandular with black hairs, tomentulose; inner 18–30+; outer gradually shorter. |
Fruits | columnar, 3–4 mm, brown. |
columnar, 1.5–2 mm, dark brown. |
Heads | 1(2–3). |
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2n | =18, 36, 45, 54, 63. |
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Hieracium longiberbe |
Hieracium pilosella |
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Distribution | ||
Discussion | Rocky slopes and cliffs, open woods. Flowering May–Aug. 0–600 m. Casc. WA. Native. This species is limited to the Columbia River Gorge and its immediate vicinity. Its distinctive, densely pilose-setose involucres, lacking either tomentulose or stipitate-glandular pubescence, distinguish it from the closely allied species Hieracium scouleri, a widespread taxon whose numerous pubescence variants are not correlated with any particular geographical areas. Hieracium longiberbe and H. scouleri were shown to be sister taxa in a molecular phylogenetic study by Gaskin and Wilson (2007). |
Grasslands, roadsides, lawns, disturbed areas. Flowering May–Jun. 0–300 m. Casc, WV. WA; widely scattered in North America; Europe. Exotic. |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 289 Kenton Chambers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 290 Kenton Chambers |
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