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Hieracium alpinum (alpine hawkweed)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hieracium alpinum or alpine hawkweed is a Eurasian plant species in the dandelion tribe within the sunflower family. It is native to Europe, and has also been found in Greenland. Hieracium alpinum is an herb up to 25 cm (9.8 in) tall, with leaves mostly in a rosette at the bottom. Leaves are lance-shaped, up to 8 cm (3.1 in) long. One stalk will usually produce only one flower head, though occasionally 2 or 3. Each head has 80-120 yellow ray flowers but no disc flowers.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Structure [3]  Herb
Light Preference [2]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [2]  Very Acid
Soil Fertility [2]  Infertile
Soil Moisture [2]  Moist

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Laplandskiy Biosphere Reserve 757114 Russia  

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1USDA Plants Database, U. S. Department of Agriculture
2Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0