Plant help needed
Sep. 8th, 2006 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbpanThere's a dyc (damned yellow composite, if you forgot) that is growing in dozens of locations (mostly roadsides) all around where I live. I'm fairly certain it's in the genus Hieracium. (All the plant people just sputtered out a humorless laugh. There may be anywhere between 200 to more than a thousand species in this very troublesome genus.) It is not hairy, like most hawkweeds. It has leaves all along the stem, more than half the way to the flowers--it looks like most hawkweeds have rosettes only, or just a few leaves up the stem.
Do I have a chance of identifying this thing to species?
My best guess is H. paniculatum, but I don't trust that, since that's a native species, and this thing is behaving like an alien invasive.
Do I have a chance of identifying this thing to species?
My best guess is H. paniculatum, but I don't trust that, since that's a native species, and this thing is behaving like an alien invasive.
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Date: 2006-09-10 12:58 am (UTC)http://www.ontariowildflower.com/wildflower_waste2.htm#hawkweedcda
Numerous toothed leaves on stem; no basal rosette at flower time; leaves alternate. Looks like a good candidate!
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Date: 2006-09-10 08:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-10 10:31 pm (UTC)sorry it took me a day to answer.