Hieracium albiflorum

Hieracium albiflorum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Subfamily: Cichorioideae
Tribe: Cichorieae
Genus: Hieracium
Species: H. albiflorum
Binomial name
Hieracium albiflorum
Hook. 1833
Synonyms[1]
  • Chlorocrepis albiflora (Hook.) W.A.Weber
  • Hieracium helleri Gand.
  • Pilosella albiflora (Hook.) F.W.Schultz & Sch.Bip.

Hieracium albiflorum is a common and widespread North American plant in the sunflower family, known by the names white hawkweed and white-flowered hawkweed.

Hieracium albiflorum grows in western North America, from Alaska and Northwest Territories south as far as Chihuahua, Sonora) and east to Manitoba and the Black Hills of South Dakota. There have been reports of populations in Québec and Wisconsin, but these are probably waifs or introductions.[2][3][4][5]

Hieracium albiflorum is found in forests and woodlands at low to moderate elevation. It is similar its relative the common dandelion, except for having more than one flower head per plant, sometimes 50 or more in a flat-topped array. Each head has 6-25 white (rather than yellow as in most related species) ray flowers but no disc flowers.[6]

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