554 COMPOSITAE (COMPOSITE FAMILY) 
MOUSE-EAR HAWKWEED 
Hierdcium Pilosélla, 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, 
woe 383. — Mouse-ear pointed, hairy. Achenes oblong, ribbed, 
awkweed (Hieracium the pappus a funnel-form row of fine, 
eee. ee tawny bristles. (Fig. 383.) 
Means of control the same as for Orange Hawkweed. 
ORANGE HAWKWEED 
Hieracium aurantiacum, 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. 
