Skye Flora

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Hieracium aurantiacum

Other name: Pilosella aurantiaca

Hieracium aurantiacum

Photo © Carl Farmer
22 Sep 2002 Portree

Found here and there on roadsides or waste ground.  A garden escape that has become naturalized.

Flowerhead diameter c 15-22 mm

Skye ID: Unmistakable.  Involucres blackish and very tightly packed together (unopened ones can be seen protruding below flower in pic on left)

Other features: Leaves in basal rosette except for one or two on lower part of stem.

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Hieracium aurantiacum

Photo © Carl Farmer
12 Jun 2004 Portree
Far right flowerheads = those in pic on right

  Hieracium aurantiacum

Photo © Carl Farmer
12 Jun 2004 Portree
Lower left flowerhead c 2.1 cm across at widest


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