Rough hawkbit

Leontodon hispidus, the rough hawkbit, is a perennial herb of the family Asteraceae forming a basal rosette of leaves from a short stout rootstock. The leaves are oblong to lance-shaped, wavy or shallowly toothed, and clothed in stiff forked hairs that give the plant its rough texture. From the centre of the rosette rise solitary, leafless, hairy flowering stems 10 to 50 cm tall, each bearing a single bright yellow dandelion-like head; the outer ray florets are often reddish or greyish beneath, and the head nods in bud. The fruit is an achene with a feathery pappus. It flowers from early summer into autumn. Native to Europe and southwest Asia, rough hawkbit grows in dry to damp neutral and calcareous grassland, meadows, banks and roadsides.