Hieracium argutum

Southern hawkweed

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Southern hawkweed is a California native perennial found in central Sierra Nevada Foothills, southern Coast Ranges, southern California, northern Channel Islands, and Transverse Ranges in dry woodland slopes at elevations below 1,530 meters. Flowering from June to October, this plant produces yellow flowers in open panicle-like clusters with multiple heads. Growing with stems 30 to 100 centimeters tall that are proximally glabrous and distally branched-hairy, it has a distinctive appearance. Its lance-oblong leaves are 8 to 16 centimeters long, featuring widely spaced wavy teeth and covered in coarse branched hairs, with smaller cauline leaves restricted to the lower stem. The fruit is 2 to 3 millimeters long with a white pappus 3.5 to 5 millimeters in length.

Habitat: dry slopes, woodland

Bloom period: Jun-Oct

Elevation: < 1530 m

Bioregions: c SNF, SCoRO, SCo, n ChI, TR

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.