RED AND ORANGE FLOWERS 
Devil's Paint-Brush. Grim the Collier ( Hieracium auran- 
tiacum). Composite family. June to September. 
A low perennial with hairy stem rising from a cluster of basal 
leaves and bearing at its top a cluster of small (less than one 
inch) orange flower-heads beset with black hairs. The flowers 
are strap-shaped, and all perfect, as in the dandelion. A trouble- 
some weed in some localities, usurping entire fields and ruining 
them for cultivation, but offering a pretty sight when struggling 
with the daisy and the buttercup for the supremacy of a field 
intended by the farmer to serve a more useful purpose. One 
can see such fields in June during the drive from Willoughby 
Lake, Vermont, to the Barton Station. 
The prevailing color of this common genus, named from the 
Greek word for hawk, is bright yellow. Familiar examples, to 
be found in the section for yellow flowers, are Rough Hawkweed 
{H. scabrum), Canada Hawkweed (H. canadense), Panicled 
Hawkweed {H. paniculatum), and Rattlesnake Weed {H. ve- 
nosum). One or more of these species may be found in dry, 
open woods almost anywhere. Though by no means beautiful 
they are in general rather striking weeds; Miller and Whiting 
speak, for example, of the jaunty carriage of Rough Hawkweed. 
Grim the Collier, so named on account of the black hairs about 
the flower-head, is by far the most decorative member of the 
group. 
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