Hieracium megacephalum

Hieracium megacephalum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Hieracium
Species: H. megacephalum
Binomial name
Hieracium megacephalum
Nash 1895
Synonyms[1][2]

Hieracium megacephalon Nash

Hieracium megacephalum, coastal plain hawkweed,[3] is a North American plant species in the dandelion tribe within the sunflower family. It grows only in the southeastern United States, in Georgia, Florida, and the Carolinas.[4]

Hieracium megacephalum is an herb up to 40 cm (16 in) tall, with leaves on the stem and also in a rosette at the bottom. Leaves are up to 120 mm (4.7 in) long, sometimes with teeth on the edges. One stalk can produce as many as 50 flower heads in a flat-topped array. Each head has 20–50 yellow ray flowers but no disc flowers.[5]

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