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Yellow Devil Hawkweed

Pilosella floribunda

Also called Irish Fox And Cubs, Flowery Hawkweed, Glaucous Hawkweed

Yellow Devil Hawkweed
Photo: Superior National Forest, CC BY 2.0

Yellow devil hawkweed is a perennial daisy-family herb with clustered yellow flowers, native to northern and eastern Europe and now naturalized in parts of North America. It is often treated as a weed, so the key to growing it is to contain its spread.

Family
Asteraceae (Daisy family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the top of the soil to dry between waterings.
Soil
Average, well-drained soil; tolerates poor soil.
Temperature
10–25 °C; hardy in cold winters.
How easy
Easy
Native range
N. & E. Europe
Climate
temperate

About

Pilosella floribunda (synonym Hieracium floribundum, also known as pale hawkweed, smoothish hawkweed, yellow hawkweed, and yellow devil hawkweed) is a species of noxious and herbaceous perennial plant from family Asteraceae that is known in Europe (particularly France) and can also be found in United States and Canada. It was believed that it was a hybrid of Pilosella caespitosa (Hieracium caespitosum and Pilosella lactucella (Hieracium lactucella).

Other Pilosella plants

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

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pilosella floribunda 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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