WILD FLOWERS yellow and orangb 



from June to September, from Maine to Ontario* 

 Minnesota, Alabama, and Texas. 



ORANGE, OR TAWNY HAWKWEED. GOLDEN 



MOUSE-EAR HAWKWEED. GRIM THE 



COLLIER. DEVIL'S PAINT BRUSH 



Hieracium aurantiacum. Chicory Family. 



The orange-coloured flowers and grimy stem will 

 always keep this attractive Hawkweed from becom- 

 ing confused with any of the yellow-flowered species. 

 It has become naturalized here, and came from Europe. 

 The generic name is derived from the Greek, hierax, 

 a hawk, because the ancients thought that these birds 

 sharpened their eyesight by feeding on these plants- 

 The slender, round, grooved stalk rises from six 

 to twenty inches from a rosette of leaves. It is quite 

 naked, excepting for one or two small stemless leaves, 

 which it bears near the ground. Its green colour 

 is obscured by numerous, dull brownish hairs with 

 which it is begrimed. The long oval, tufted leaves 

 are narrowed at the base, and are toothless. They 

 are covered with long, whitish hairs. The flower 

 head is composed of numerous short, yellow-centred, 

 orange-red, five-toothed, overlapping, strap-shaped 

 florets that curve outward from the centre. The 

 green cup is covered with the dark hairs. Several 

 heads are rather closely grouped on short stems in 

 a terminal cluster at tfie top of the stalk. Grim the 

 Collier is a popular English name for this Hawkweed 

 and applies to the general grimy or sooty appearance 



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