HAWK'S BEARD 



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nari'owei. with a purple midrib, claspiny" stem-leaves, which are acute, 

 toothed, with the inrolled margins and the lobes bent back. 



The tlowerheads are yellow, numerous, in a downy involucre, with 

 the outer l)racts narrow, linear, widely spreading or closely associated, 

 the inner ones smooth within. Tlu- fruit is shorter than the pappus, 

 which is silkv. 



3 ft. in hei 



i\\ k s l-)eard is 6 m. to 

 u. Mowers ma\ 

 be tountl in June and Jul)'. 

 It is an amiual, herbaceous, 

 and increased by seeds. 



The flowerhead is large 

 and conspicuous, and the 

 plant is visited by many 

 insects. The corolla is ligu- 

 late, bell -shaped, yellow, 

 the tlorets being herma- 

 phrodite. The stamens are 

 borne on hair -like anther- 

 stalks with the anthers 

 united into a cylinder. The 

 arms of the style are slen- 

 der, the upper part hair\'. 

 and as long as the stamens. 

 The 2 stigmas are turned 

 back. The \isitors are 

 Hymenoptera, Panurgns, 

 Rlwpliiles, Dasvpoda, An- 



dreiia, Haiictns, Diptera, .SyrphidtC, Eristalis, Mclithrcptiis, Syip/iiis, 

 Cheilosia, Conopida^, Sicus, Coleoptera, Mordellidee, Mordc/la. 



The white ])aj)pus is in man\' rows, and assists in the dispersal of 

 the fruit by the wind. 



Hawk's Beard is addicted to a santl soil, and is more or less strictly 

 a .sand-loving plant. 



Like other Composites, Hawk's Heard is attacked by a fungus, 

 Puccinia hieracii. A H\mcnopterous insect, Ifalictiis x'i/fosti//is, is 

 found upon it. 



Crepis, Pliny, is from the Greek cirp/s, a kind of boot; and 

 the second Latin name means green, fresh. It was called Hawkbit 

 because the hawk was supposed to pluck it and smear its eyes with 

 it to impi-o\'(! its vision. 



Hawks Hi:ai!1i [Crcpis virois, L.) 



