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Hieracium schmidtii
Hieracium schmidtii is a perennial hawkweed in the daisy family, native to Europe, Lebanon-Syria and Turkey, with over 60 accepted subspecies. It is a wild herbaceous plant rarely grown in gardens, and the key to growing it is a sunny spot with well-drained soil.
Hieracium schmidtii is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe, Lebanon-Syria, and Turkey. It was first described by Ignaz Friedrich Tausch in 1828. As of October 2024, Plants of the World Online accepted over 60 subspecies. Many of the subspecies have been treated as separate species; as one example Hieracium schmidtii subsp. graniticum has been treated as Hieracium graniticum and Hieracium sylvaticum.
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 schmidtii 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.
