Hieracium scouleri

Western hawkweed, Western Hawkweed

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Native

Western hawkweed is a California native perennial found in the Klamath Ranges, northern Coast Ranges, northern Sierra Nevada, northern Sierra Nevada Mountains, and Modoc Plateau in open woodlands and brushy areas at elevations of 300 to 2,300 meters. Flowering from May to September, this plant produces yellow flowers in flat-topped clusters with 20 to 50 individual blooms. Growing with erect stems 35 to 100 centimeters tall, it has stems that range from nearly smooth to densely hairy with branching hairs. Its basal and cauline leaves are 10 to 20 centimeters long, lanceolate to oblanceolate, and may be glabrous or sparsely hairy with occasional branched hairs. The fruit is small, approximately 3 millimeters long, with a white or dull brown pappus 6 to 7 millimeters in length.

Habitat: Open woodland, brushy areas

Bloom period: May-Sep

Elevation: 300-2300 m

Bioregions: KR, NCoRH, CaRH, n SNH, MP

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