Yellow King-Devil

Synonyms:   Yellow Hawkweed

Scientific Name:   Hieracium caespitosum


Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers). Introduced species from Europe.

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Yellow King-Devil


Genus species: Hieracium caespitosum
Common Names: Yellow King-Devil, Yellow Hawkweed
Family Name: Asteraceae  
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Nonnative
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Yellow
Identified by:M. Becus
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