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Diaphanous Hawkweed

Hieracium diaphanoides

Also called Fine Bracted Hawkweed

Diaphanous Hawkweed
Photo: Alenka Mihoric, CC BY 4.0

Diaphanous Hawkweed is a small perennial wildflower of the daisy family, native from Europe to western Siberia, grown mainly as a hardy garden or rock-garden plant. It thrives in sun or light shade and well-drained soil.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water during dry spells; let the soil dry out between waterings.
Soil
Well-drained, average to poor soil; sandy or gritty mix is ideal.
Temperature
Hardy to around -20 °C; tolerates cold winters.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Europe to W. Siberia
Climate
temperate

About

Hieracium diaphanoides is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Asteraceae.

Its native range is Europe to Western Siberia.

Other Hieracium plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hieracium diaphanoides 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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