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Mouse-Ear Hawkweed (Hieracium pilosella)
Image ID: 2015/cvwv06
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Introduced
Family:
Asteraceae (Sunflower)
Height: 0.25 to 1 ft.
Blooms: June to
September
Leaf Type:
smooth
Bloom Size: 1 in. (typical)
Flower Description:
Individual flowers,
Parts indistinct
Location: Canaan Valley/Blackwater Falls
Date: 5/23/2015
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Mouse-Ear Hawkweed may be
easily confused with:
- Canada Hawkweed
Mouse-ear hawkweed has a much larger flower, and basal leaves only.
- Common Dandelion
Dandelion leaves are smooth and sharply toothed. Mouse-Ear Hawkweek leaves are hairy and fairly smooth.
- Large Mouse-Ear Hawkweed
The 'large' variety has a stout stem and 2 to 5 flower heads per stem. Mouse-ear hawkweed has one (occasionally two) flowers per stem, and a slender stem.
- Smooth Hawksbeard
The hawksbeard leaves are strongly toothed; hawkweed leaves have a smooth edge.
- Yellow Hawkweed
The flowers on yellow hawkweed are much smaller than those on mouse-ear hawkweed.
We started out as wildflowers from the bicycle trails of western Pennsylvania, but we've
grown!
Meyer, Joseph E. (1918). The Herbalist and Herb Doctor. Hammond, Ind.: Indiana Herb Gardens. 400 pp.
