Leontodon saxatilis subsp. longirostris

Family: Asteraceae · Type: perennial · Not Native

Hawkbit is a naturalized perennial found in northern coastal California, northern Sierra Nevada foothills, Sacramento Valley, northern San Joaquin Valley, central coastal California, and San Francisco Bay Area in disturbed areas at elevations below 1,000 meters. Flowering from June to October, this plant produces yellow flowers in heads approximately 3 to 4 centimeters wide. Growing with slender, branching stems 10 to 30 centimeters tall, it forms loose rosettes in open ground. Its basal leaves are deeply lobed, narrow, and green, spreading in a flat circular pattern around the base of the plant. The plant spreads readily in disturbed landscapes, originating from European populations that have naturalized across western North America.

Habitat: Disturbed areas

Bloom period: Jun-Oct

Elevation: < 1000 m

Bioregions: NCo, CaRF, n SNF, ScV, n SnJV, CCo, SnFrB

California counties: Nevada, Butte, Glenn, Tehama, Shasta, Placer, Yuba, Mendocino, El Dorado, Plumas, Alameda, Napa, Amador, Humboldt, Sacramento, Santa Barbara

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