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Hieracium paniculatum - (image 1 of 4)

Taxonomy

Family: Asteraceae

Habitat

Dry woods.

Associates

Distribution

Nova Scotia and Quebec to MN, south to VA, OH, and in mountains to northern GA.

Morphology

Herbaceous perennial from a short caudex or crown; stems mostly solitary, 30-150 cm, long-hairy below, otherwise glabrous, leafy up to the inflorescence; leaves thin, glabrous or with a few long hairs on the glaucous lower surface, callous-toothed or subentire, the lowest ones petiolate, only slightly if at all enlarged, often soon deciduous, the others elliptic, narrowed to a sessile or subsessile base, only gradually reduced upward, 4-12 cm long; inflorescence open-paniculiform, with long, flexuous, slender peduncles; involucres narrow, 5-9 mm; flowers 8-30; achenes truncate.

Notes

Flowers July to September

Wetland indicator: NA

Has fewer flowers in each head (8-30) than other similar species.

References

Gleason, Henry A. and A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada. Second Ed.
The New York Botanical Garden. Bronx, NY

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