Scientific name: Leontodon saxatilis Lam.
Common name: Lesser Hawkbit
Description
Habit: Perennial, 10-20 cm high.
Stems: Stems unbranched, usually hairy only at base.
Leaves: All basal, with stiff forked hairs; linear-oblong, pinnatifid with short, blunt and triangular lobes.
Flowers: Yellow, flower-heads solitary, 15-25 mm across; florets all ligulate.
Fruits: An achene; outer achenes without a beak, and with a pappus of small scales; inner achenes shortly beaked, with a pappus of white feathery branched hairs.
Habitat: Dry grassland, sand dunes.
Distribution: Locally abundant on limestone and near the sea, rather rare elsewhere.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No