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White hawkweed

Hieracium albiflorum

Also called White Flowered Hawkweed

White hawkweed
Photo: Walter Siegmund (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0

White hawkweed is a native wildflower of western North American forests and woodlands, with clusters of small white flowers. It is a wild species rather than a common garden plant, and it grows best in cool, partly shaded, moist woodland conditions.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist during the growing season, but avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, humus-rich woodland soil.
Temperature
Tolerates cool summers and cold winters; hardy in its native subarctic to temperate range.
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Subarctic America to N. Mexico
Climate
temperate

About

Hieracium albiflorum, known by the names white hawkweed and white-flowered hawkweed, is a common and widespread species of plant in the family Asteraceae.

Hieracium albiflorum is found in western North America, from Alaska and the Northwest Territories south to Mexico (Chihuahua, Sonora) and east to Manitoba and the Black Hills of South Dakota. There have been reports of populations in Québec and Wisconsin, but these are probably waifs or introductions.

Other Hieracium plants

Rusby's Hawkweed · Alpine hawkweed · Sticky Hawkweed · Silver Hawkweed · Southern hawkweed · Attenborough's Hawkweed · Baker's Hawkweed · Hieracium bifidum · Bolander's hawkweed · Hieracium caesiomurorum · Hieracium caesium · Hieracium caespiticola

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hieracium albiflorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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