Skye Flora

Many-leaved Hawkweed

Hieracium umbellatum agg

Taxonomic note: Hawkweeds are apomictic and consists of a huge number of microspecies. Here they are divided into just two groups: few-leaved and many-leaved. Another two species, H aurantiacum and H pilosella, both very distinctive, are treated separately.

Photo © Carl Farmer
(13 Sep 2003 Haddington, E Lothian)
Open flowerhead 3.1 cm across

Frequent on roadsides, waste ground, in woods, etc.

Flower diameter c 20-50 mm

Skye ID: Stem-leaves many, e.g. 12 or more, giving effect like in picture on left below. Flowerhead has involucral bracts of differing lengths (i.e not just in two or more rows each of uniform length)

Other features: Normally has black hairs on involucre. Fruits with feathery pappus like dandelion but shorter and brownish.

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Photo © Carl Farmer (13 Sep 2003 Haddington, E Lothian) Height of plant 88 cm		Photo © Carl Farmer (13 Sep 2003 Haddington, E Lothian) Leaf 10.8 cm long
		Leaf from 1/3 way up the stem

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