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Yellow Fox And Cubs

Pilosella caespitosa

Also called Yellow King Devil, Meadow Hawkweed, Yellow Hawkweed, King Devil, Field Hawkweed

Yellow Fox And Cubs
Photo: Konstantin Ryabitsev from Montréal, Canada, CC BY-SA 2.0
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Native range
Europe to C. Siberia and Caucasus
Climate
temperate

About

Pilosella caespitosa (synonym Hieracium caespitosum, commonly known as meadow hawkweed, yellow hawkweed,

field hawkweed, king devil, yellow paintbrush, devil's paintbrush, yellow devil, yellow fox-and-cubs, and yellow king-devil)

Where it grows

Tolerant of drought and trampling, this species finds its habitat where the soil has been neglected. Places like roadsides, neglected residential and commercial landscapes, minimally maintained public parks and open spaces, vacant lots, rubble dump sites, and abandoned grasslands (meadows).

Other Pilosella plants

Fox And Cubs · Pilosella echioides · Flagellate Hawkweed · Yellow Devil Hawkweed · Lettuce Hawkweed · Pilosella levieri · Mouse Ear Hawkweed · Pilosella onegensis · Hieracium piloselloides · Pilosella praealta · Pilosella schultesii · Hawkweeds

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pilosella caespitosa 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.

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