Scientific name: Hieracium sp.
Common name: Hawkweed
Description
Habit: Perennial.
Stems: Solid, sometimes reddish at the base.
Leaves: Mostly basal, toothed or shallowly toothed.
Flowers: Yellow, flower-heads rather small and in a loose, corymbose panicle; involucral bracts in several rows; florets all ligulate.
Fruits: An achene, pappus brittle, brown or dirty white, of unbranched hairs.
Very similar to Crepis, but it is generally hairier, the leaves nearly untoothed and the flower-heads sometimes solitary.
This is a very difficult genus and does not form species in the normal sense.
Habitat: Rocks and cliffs.
Distribution: Frequent.
Native status: H. maculatum not native.
Of conservation interest: H. hartii, H. hibernicum, H. scullyi and H. sparsifrons are of conservation interest.