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Hieracium horridum
Hieracium horridum, known as the prickly hawkweed or shaggy hawkweed, is a species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It gets its name from the long, dense, shaggy white to brown hairs (trichomes) which cover all of the plant parts of this plant species. The species is native to Oregon, California, and Nevada in the western United States.
The habitat of Hieracium horridum is in dry rocky places within mountainous coniferous forests in Oregon, California and Nevada at elevations between 5,000 feet (1,524 m) and 12,000 feet (3,658 m).
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 horridum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
