Hieracium scabrum - (image 1 of 4)
Taxonomy
Family: Asteraceae
Habitat
Open ground and dry woods.
Associates
Distribution
Nova Scotia and Quebec to MN, south to VA, KY, MO, and in mountains to northern GA.
Morphology
Herbaceous perennial from a short caudex or crown; stems mostly solitary, 20-150 cm, setose at least towards the base with spreading hairs rarely up to 5 mm, becoming stellate and long stipitate-glandular upwards, densely so in the inflorescence; leaves setose on both sides, more so on the petiole and midrib beneath; lower leaves broadly oblanceolate to elliptic, 5-20 cm (including petiole), the others progressively reduced upward and becoming more sessile, so that upper part of stem does not appear leafy; inflorescence open-corymbiform to more often elongate and cylindric; involucres 6-9 mm, hispid with blackish, mostly gland-tipped hairs; flowers 40-100 per head; achenes 2-3 mm, truncate, only obscurely if at all narrowed upward.
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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