Hieracium fendleri

Hieracium fendleri is a North American plant species in the dandelion tribe within the sunflower family. It is widespread across much of the western part of the continent, from the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota south as far as Guatemala.[2][3][4][5]

Hieracium fendleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Cichorieae
Genus: Hieracium
Species:
H. fendleri
Binomial name
Hieracium fendleri
Synonyms[1]
  • Chlorocrepis fendleri (Sch.Bip.) W.A.Weber
  • Crepis ambigua A.Gray 1849 not Balb. 1805
  • Heteropleura fendleri (Sch.Bip.) Rydb.
  • Hieracium arsenei S.F.Blake
  • Hieracium arsenia Blake

Hieracium fendleri is an herb up to 40 cm (16 in) tall, with leaves mostly in a rosette at the bottom. Leaves are up to 70 mm (2.8 in) long, sometimes with small teeth on the edges. One stalk will produce 2-5 flower heads in a flat-topped array. Each head has 15-30 pale yellow ray flowers but no disc flowers.[5]

References
  1. The Plant List, Hieracium fendleri Sch.Bip.
  2. Biota of North America Program 2004 county distribution map
  3. SEINet, Southwestern Biodiversity, Arizona chapter photos, description, distribution map
  4. Breedlove, D.E. 1986. Flora de Chiapas. Listados Florísticos de México 4: i–v, 1–246.
  5. Flora of North America, Hieracium fendleri Schultz-Bipontinus, 1861.


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