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Yellow hawkweed

Hieracium fendleri

Also called Fendler's Hawkweed

Yellow hawkweed
Photo: Patrick Alexander from Las Cruces, NM, CC0

Yellow hawkweed (Hieracium fendleri) is a small North American perennial herb in the daisy family, forming a basal rosette of leaves with a few pale yellow flower heads. It is a wild plant of western and southwestern North America rather than a commonly grown garden or houseplant, so the care details below are general guidance for the genus.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry between waterings; it tolerates dry conditions once established.
Soil
Well-drained, average to poor soil, including gravelly or sandy mixes.
Temperature
Hardy in cool to temperate climates; protect from prolonged waterlogging and extreme heat.
How easy
Easy
Native range
WC. & SC. U.S.A. to Guatemala

About

Hieracium fendleri is a North American plant species in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across much of the western part of the continent, from the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota south as far as Guatemala.

Hieracium fendleri is an herb up to 40 cm (16 in) tall, with leaves mostly in a rosette at the bottom. Leaves are up to 70 mm (2.8 in) long, sometimes with small teeth on the edges. One stalk will produce 2-5 flower heads in a flat-topped array. Each head has 15-30 pale yellow ray flowers but no disc flowers.

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 fendleri 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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