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Hieracium hethlandiae
Cliva Hill hawkweed is a perennial daisy-family plant native only to Shetland, now extinct in the wild and maintained through cultivation and a 2015 reintroduction. It is not a commonly grown garden plant, so care guidance is limited.
Hieracium hethlandiae, known as Cliva Hill hawkweed, is a species of hawkweed native to Shetland. The species was first published in 1946.
The species was endemic to a localized region of rocky slopes near Mavis Grind. Already threatened due to overgrazing by sheep, it was declared extinct in the wild after habitat disruption due to quarrying in the 1980s.
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 hethlandiae 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.
