Daisy: Hawkweeds Family:-

Hawkweeds are "hairy perennials with dandelion-like flowers, nearly always yellow but rarely orange-red, with alternate leaves, milky juice, no chaffy scales between the florets, the hairs of the pappus not feathery and generally pale tawny, and the fruits neather beaked nor narrowed at the top. The leavs are very variable, from linear to nearly round, not or deeply toothed, and sometimes purple-spotted.

Owing to their seeds normally ripening without fertiisation (a phenomenon know as apomixis and found in other difficult genera, such as Dandelions), the Hawkweeds are immensely variable, and small local chance variations come true from seed and are readily perpetuated. These variations have been divided in Britain into some 260 microspecies. For most people, however, it will be enough to know a Hawkweed from the other dandelion-like flowers, so they have been 'lumped' into 4 groups, 2 normally with creeping roots, and 2 tufted, of which one has leafy stems and the other nearly leafless ones. These last 2, however, are very arbitrary, and almost every intermediate gradation may be found." from Collins Pocket Guide to Wild Flowers by David McClintock and R.S.R. Fitter assisted by Francis Rose - ISBN 0 00 219363 9 - Eleventh Impression 1978

Daisy: Hawkweeds Family plant table with its Common Name - Botanical Name. Flowering Months Range. Habitat with link to that Wild Flower Habitat Gallery:-

Common Name

Botanical Name

Flowering Months

Habitat

Few-leaved Hawkweed

Groups Phyllopoda and Transitoria includes Hieracium murorum, Hieracium cerinthoides and Hieracium alpinum (Crepis alpestris)

May-July

Hieracium (Hawkweeds) are a group of tap-rooted perennial herbs growing in a wide range of habitats, but with a preference for infertile, rocky substrates. Habitats include rocky grassland, limestone pavement, cliffs, upland rock ledges, rocky river banks, roadsides, railway banks, walls and quarries. In grazed areas plants are often restricted to inaccessible sites. 0?1220 m (Cairngorms, S. Aberdeen).

Flower

Flowers

Foliage from North Yorkshire in June

Form from North Yorkshire in June

Fox-and-Cubs

Hieracium aurantiacum (Pilosella aurantiaca)

June-September

A stoloniferous or rhizomatous perennial herb, which has escaped from gardens and become naturalised on railway and roadside banks, on walls and in churchyards and other grassy and waste places. 0-445 m (Nenthead, Cumberland).

Flower from Chatham on 8 September

Flowers from Chatham in Kent on 8 September

Foliage

Form

Leafy Hawkweed

Group Aphyllopoda includes Hieracium sabaudum, Hieracium umbellatum and Hieracium prenanthoides

July onwards

Heath and Rivers (widespread and common, especially in sandy and heathy places and on riversides)

Flower of Hieracium umbellatum

Flowers of Channel Island form of Hieracium umbellatum

Foliage of Hieracium umbellatum

Form of Hieracium umbellatum

Mouse-Ear Hawkweed

Hieracium pilosella (Pilosella officinarum)

May onwards

A stoloniferous, perennial herb of dry habitats, including short grassland, heaths, sand dunes, screes, rock outcrops, quarries and cliffs. It grows on both base-rich and acidic substrates. 0-915 m (Ben Macdui, S. Aberdeen).

Flower from Stratford in London. Photo from BritishFlora

Flowers from Stratford in London. Photo from BritishFlora

Foliage from Stratford in London. Photo from BritishFlora

Form from Dungeness in Kent

Spotted Hawkweed

Hieracium maculatum (Hieracium spilophaeum)

June-August

Walls, banks and rocks. Scattered throughout England and Wales from Devon to Kent and northwards to Westmoreland and North-East Yorkshire

Flower

Flowers

Foliage

Form

The Joys of the English language

Polish Divorce:-

A Polish man moved to the USA and  married an American girl.

Although his English  was far from perfect, they got along very well. However, one day he rushed  into a lawyer's office and asked him if he could arrange a divorce for  him.

The lawyer said that getting a  divorce would depend on the circumstances, and asked him the following questions:- 

Have  you any grounds?
Yes, an acre and half and nice  little home.

No, I mean what is the  foundation of this case?
It made of  concrete.

I don't think you  understand.  Does  either of you have a real grudge? 
No,  we have carport, and not need one.

I mean.  What are your relations like?
All my relations  still in Poland .

Is there any infidelity  in your marriage?
We have hi-fidelity stereo  and good DVD player. 

Does  your wife beat you up?
No, I always up before  her.

Is your wife a nagger?
No, she white.

Why do you want this divorce?
She going to kill me.

What makes you think  that?
I got proof. 

What  kind of proof?
She going to poison  me.  She  buy a bottle at drugstore
and put on shelf in  bathroom.  I  can read, and it say:

'Polish  Remover'.