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COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 



MOUSE-EAR HAWZWEED 

 Hieracium Pilosella, L. 



Other English names : Felon Herb, Mouse Bloodwort, Ling Gowans. 



Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by stolons. 



Time of bloom: June to September. 



Seed-time: July to October. 



Range: Ontario to Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. 



Habitat: Grasslands, lawns and yards, waste places. 



Roots tufted and fibrous, not far below 

 the surface. Stem erect, slender, leafless, 

 bristly-hairy, three to ten inches high. 

 Leaves all basal, only two or three inches 

 long and less than an inch wide, entire, 

 spatulate, narrowing into short petioles, 

 bristly-hairy on both sides, but green 

 above while the hairs on the under side 

 are star-shaped and matted into white 

 wool. Thrust out from among the leaves 

 are several slender, leafy runners, three 

 inches to a foot in length, which take root 

 and form new plants, causing the weed to 

 grow in patches. Heads about an inch 

 broad, solitary, golden yellow ; bracts of 

 the involucre in one or two series, linear, 



FIG. 383. Mouse-ear pointed, hairy. Achenes oblong, ribbed, 

 (Hieracium the pappus a funnel-form row of fine, 

 tawny bristles. (Fig. 383.) 



Means of control the same as for Orange Hawkweed. 



Hawkweed 

 Pilosella). X J. 



ORANGE HAWKWEED 

 Hieracium aurantlacum, L. 



Other English names: Devil's Paintbrush, Devil's Weed, Grim the 



Collier, Red Daisy. 



Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds and by stolons. 

 Time of bloom : Early June to September. 

 Seed-time: July to October. 

 Range: Eastern provinces of Canada, New England, and Middle 



Atlantic States to Ohio ; locally farther west. 

 Habitat: Fields, meadows, pastures, roadsides, waste places. 



