Hieracium scouleri |
Hieracium longiberbe |
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Scouler's hawkweed, woolly weed |
long-bearded hawkweed |
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Habit | Plants 30–100 cm; taprooted. | Plants 10–60 cm; taprooted. |
Stems | simple or branched; surfaces glabrous to tomentulose, puberulent, or pilose-setose, sometimes glandular-setose distally. |
simple or branched, glabrous or pilose. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
12–30; ligules 10–15 mm, yellow. |
Phyllaries | linear-lanceolate; surfaces pilose-setose with black hairs; inner 12–20+; outer gradually shorter. |
linear-lanceolate; surfaces densely long-setose with brown or black hairs; inner 10–16; outer gradually shorter. |
Fruits | columnar, 2.5–3 mm, dark brown. |
columnar, 3–4 mm, brown. |
2n | =18. |
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Hieracium scouleri |
Hieracium longiberbe |
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Distribution | ||
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. |
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). |
Source | Flora of Oregon, volume 2 draft Kenton Chambers |
Flora of Oregon, volume 2, page 289 Kenton Chambers |
Sibling taxa | ||
Synonyms | Hieracium albertinum, Hieracium chapacanum, Hieracium cusickii, Hieracium cynoglossoides, Hieracium nudicaule, Hieracium scouleri var. albertinum, Hieracium scouleri var. scouleri | |
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