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Scouler's hawkweed, woolly weed

wall hawkweed

Habit Plants 30–100 cm; taprooted. Plants 25–90 cm; taprooted.
Stems

simple or branched;

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

simple or branched, setose-pilose proximally, becoming tomentulose and hispid-glandular distally.

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 or basal and cauline; ovate or broadly elliptic, 5–50 cm, bases truncate or cordate;

margins denticulate to dentate; lower usually strongly toothed;

tips acute or obtuse. surfaces abaxially pilose, adaxially glabrous or lightly pilose;

basal petiolate;

cauline sessile.

Inflorescences

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

panicle-like arrays, bracteate.

Involucres

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

campanulate in flower; ovoid in fruit, 7–9 mm.

Florets

15–45+;

ligules 8–20 mm, yellow.

30–50+;

ligules 15–20 mm, yellow.

Phyllaries

linear-lanceolate;

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

linear-lanceolate;

surfaces densely stipitate-glandular, sometimes tomentulose; inner 8–16; outer gradually shorter.

Fruits

columnar, 2.5–3 mm, dark brown.

columnar, 2.5–3 mm, dark brown.

2n

=18.

=27.

Hieracium scouleri

Hieracium murorum

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. 50–200 m. WV. AK, British Columbia, northeastern US and adjacent Canada; Europe. Exotic.

The common name refers to the translation of the Latin murorum, meaning “of walls.”

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. lachenalii, H. longiberbe, 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
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