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Scouler's hawkweed, woolly weed

Lachenal's hawkweed

Habit Plants 30–100 cm; taprooted. Plants 30–70 cm; taprooted.
Stems

simple or branched;

surfaces glabrous to tomentulose, puberulent, or pilose-setose, sometimes glandular-setose distally.

simple or branched, usually tomentulose or spiculate-glandular.

Leaves

basal or basal and cauline, narrowly or broadly oblanceolate or elliptic, 2.5–30 cm, bases attenuate;

margins entire, rarely denticulate;

surfaces pilose-setose and stellate-pubescent, rarely glabrous;

basal petioles often winged;

cauline usually sessile.

basal and cauline, or sometimes cauline, broadly elliptic, 5–10 cm, bases tapered;

margins dentate; lower strongly toothed;

surfaces glabrous or lightly pilose;

basal petiolate;

cauline petiolate or sessile.

Inflorescences

panicle- or raceme-like arrays, bracteate or not.

panicle- or raceme-like arrays, bracteate or not.

Involucres

campanulate in flower; ovoid in fruit, 5–12 mm.

campanulate in flower; ovoid in fruit, 7–10 mm.

Florets

15–45+;

ligules 8–20 mm, yellow.

40–80+;

ligules 13–18 mm, yellow.

Phyllaries

linear-lanceolate;

surfaces pilose-setose with black hairs; inner 12–20+; outer gradually shorter.

linear-lanceolate;

surfaces black stipitate-glandular, sometimes tomentulose; inner 14–20+; outer gradually shorter.

Fruits

columnar, 2.5–3 mm, dark brown.

columnar, 2.5–3 mm; black.

2n

=18.

=27.

Hieracium scouleri

Hieracium lachenalii

Distribution
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Discussion

Forests, shrublands, grasslands, rocky ridges and slopes, roadsides. Flowering Jun–Sep. 0–2600 m. BR, BW, Casc, Col, ECas, Owy, Sisk, WV. CA, ID, NV, WA; north to British Co­lumbia, northeast to Alberta, east to WY. Native.

Hieracium scouleri is here given a broad circumscription to include such segregate taxa as H. albertinum and H. cynoglossoides, which are sometimes also recognized at varietal rank.

Disturbed areas, roadsides. Flowering Jun–Aug. 0–1400 m. Casc, WV. WA; sparsely scattered in North America; Europe. Exotic.

Plants of H. lachenalii produce abundant fruits, probably by apomixis since its chromosome number is triploid.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 2 draft
Kenton Chambers
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 289
Kenton Chambers
Sibling taxa
H. albiflorum, H. aurantiacum, H. bolanderi, H. caespitosum, H. greenei, H. horridum, H. lachenalii, H. longiberbe, H. murorum, H. parryi, H. pilosella, H. piloselloides, H. sabaudum, H. triste, H. umbellatum
H. albiflorum, H. aurantiacum, H. bolanderi, H. caespitosum, H. greenei, H. horridum, H. longiberbe, H. murorum, H. parryi, H. pilosella, H. piloselloides, H. sabaudum, H. scouleri, H. triste, H. umbellatum
Synonyms Hieracium albertinum, Hieracium chapacanum, Hieracium cusickii, Hieracium cynoglossoides, Hieracium nudicaule, Hieracium scouleri var. albertinum, Hieracium scouleri var. scouleri Hieracium vulgatum
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