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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Menai on July 01, 2014, 12:01:54 PM

Title: ID please
Post by: Menai on July 01, 2014, 12:01:54 PM

Please could someone ID this plant. I was told it was a British native but I can't find it in my wild flower books. I suspect it is pretty common. This is not my favorite family, I have too many in my 'lawn' but I like hairy rosettes.

Thank you

Erle in sunny Anglesey.

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Maggi Young on July 01, 2014, 12:48:45 PM

 A Hieracium, possibly Hieracium villosum - one of the nicest Hawkweeds, though I cannot help a soft spot for the "weedy" Hieracium aurantiacum  too. :)

edit:  might be Hieracium pilosella   :-\

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Menai on July 01, 2014, 01:22:40 PM

Thank you Maggie.
Looks more like the pics of villosa I have seen but the suggestion that it is a native would suggest pilosella. I am not really too bothered about exactitude.

Erle