Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Hieracium intybaceum

Hieracium intybaceum
False chicory, hawk-leaved chicory
Epervière fausse chicorée




No basal leaves, but often clustered at the bottom of the stem in a false rosette, dentate to deeply cut, with sticky glandular hairs
Ancient Greeks thought that hawks ate the sap of hawkweeds to sharpen their eyesight 

Bloom 5.17.13
Form 5.17.13

Leaf 5.17.13






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