WILD FLOWERS YELLOW AND ORANGE 
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 
Hieractum 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 the 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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