Pilosella floribunda

Family: Asteraceae Genus: Pilosella Species: floribunda

Synonyms: Hieracium × spathophyllum, Hieracium apatorium, Pilosella auricula, Pilosella brachycephala, Pilosella interrupta, Hieracium islandicum, Hieracium spathophyllum subsp. longatum, Hieracium auricula var. major, Pilosella versicolor, Hieracium ladogense, Pilosella arvicola, Pilosella suecica, Pilosella fennica subsp. polysarcon, Hieracium subpratense, Hieracium arvicola, Pilosella assimilata, Hieracium vitellinum, Hieracium atramentarium, Hieracium assimilatum, Hieracium floribundum subsp. atrocroceum, Pilosella caespitosa var. floribunda, Hieracium floribundum, Pilosella islandica, Pilosella floribunda subsp. hylaeophila, Pilosella lobarzewskii, Pilosella floribunda subsp. anomelana, Hieracium pubens, Pilosella fennica subsp. fulvescens, Pilosella floribunda subsp. teplitzensis, Hieracium lobarzewskii, Pilosella fennica subsp. diatenta, Pilosella floribunda subsp. stenomacellata, Hieracium spathophyllum subsp. fulvescens, Hieracium baenitzii, Hieracium dubium var. multiflorum, Hieracium fulvescens, Hieracium islandiciforme, Hieracium auricula, Pilosella subpubens, Hieracium floribundum subsp. baenitzii, Hieracium dorei, Hieracium arvicola subsp. apatorium, Pilosella fennica subsp. melanauricula, Pilosella ladogensis, Pilosella subswirensis, Pilosella fennica subsp. spathophylla, Hieracium spathophyllum subsp. polysarcon, Hieracium floribundum subsp. atramentarium, Pilosella atramentaria, Hieracium regiomontanum, Pilosella fennica subsp. graciliglandula, Hieracium longatum, Hieracium fennicum, Hieracium oeneo-roratum, Hieracium brachycephalum, Pilosella septentrionalis var. assimilata, Hieracium floribundum subsp. islandicum, Pilosella xanthostigma, Pilosella atramentaria subsp. erubescens, Pilosella floribunda subsp. regiomontana, Hieracium svirense, Hieracium floribundum subsp. islandiciforme, Hieracium floribundum subsp. sudavicum, Pilosella fennica subsp. exorrhabda, Pilosella subpratensis, Hieracium sudavicum, Hieracium subfloribundum, Pilosella floribunda subsp. atrocrocea

Botanical Description

Pilosella floribunda, formerly known as Hieracium floribundum and commonly called yellow hawkweed or yellow king-devil, is a stoloniferous perennial herb of the family Asteraceae, native to central and northern Europe and widely introduced and weedy in parts of North America. The plant grows from a short rhizome and slender, leafy creeping stolons, forming spreading mats; the flowering stems are erect, slender, 30–80 cm tall, and clothed with stellate hairs and short bristles. The basal leaves form a flat rosette and are oblanceolate to elliptic, 3–12 cm long, dark green and roughly hairy above, glaucous beneath, with entire or remotely toothed margins; stem leaves are smaller and few in number. The inflorescence is a terminal, somewhat compact corymb of usually 5–30 small flower heads, each 10–15 mm across and composed entirely of ligulate (ray-like) yellow florets in the manner of a dandelion. Flowering occurs from June to August. The fruits are small, dark, ribbed achenes, each bearing a pappus of brownish-white capillary hairs.

Native Region: Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Rus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Norway, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Yugoslavia

Cultural & Historical Context

Traditional American Uses

None Documented

Chemistry & External Identifiers

Trefle ID

26432

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