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Hieracium flagellare

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Authors: Willd.  

Botanical Description

Filosella flagellaris). Mat-forming, 15-40cm tall, rather like H. aurantiacum but with the addition of long, robust, leafy stolons. Leaves mainly in rosettes, oblanceolate or spathulate, 3-13cm long, bearing long pale hairs on both surfaces, also fairly dense, starry hairs beneath. Flowerheads in clusters of two to six, yellow, red-striped in bud, about 2.5cm across, summer.

Northern, western and central Europe, in various habitats.