Plants Profile for Hieracium caespitosum (meadow hawkweed)

General Information
Symbol:	HICA10
Group:	Dicot
Family:	Asteraceae
Duration:	Perennial
Growth Habit:	Forb/herb
Native Status:	CAN I L48 I
Data Source and Documentation

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	Native		Introduced		Both		Absent/Unreported
	Native, No County Data		Introduced, No County Data		Both, No County Data

Native Status:

L48

NAV

CAN

SPM

Images

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©Lawrence S. Gilliam. United States, NC, Forsyth Co., damp roadside. April 29, 2004. Usage Requirements.

©Rusty Russell. Provided by Smithsonian Institution, Department of Botany. Usage Requirements.

Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. 3 vols. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Vol. 3: 333. Provided by Kentucky Native Plant Society. Scanned by Omnitek Inc. Usage Requirements.

Synonyms

Symbol	Scientific Name
HIPR	Hieracium pratense Tausch

Classification

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Rank	Scientific Name and Common Name
Kingdom	Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom	Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision	Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division	Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class	Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass	Asteridae
Order	Asterales
Family	Asteraceae ⁄ Compositae – Aster family
Genus	Hieracium L. – hawkweed
Species	Hieracium caespitosum Dumort. – meadow hawkweed

Subordinate Taxa

This plant has no children

Legal Status

Noxious Weed Information
This plant is listed by the U.S. federal government or a state. Common names are from state and federal lists. Click on a place name to get a complete noxious weed list for that location, or click here for a composite list of all Federal and State Noxious Weeds.
Idaho Hieracium pratense meadow hawkweed Noxious weed
Montana Hieracium pratense meadow hawkweed Category 2 noxious weed
Oregon Hieracium pratense meadow hawkweed "A" designated weed meadow hawkweed Quarantine
Washington Hieracium hawkweed Class C noxious weed ¹ yellow hawkweed Class B noxious weed yellow hawkweed, yellow paintbrush, devil's paintbrush, yellow devil, field hawkweed, king devil Noxious weed seed and plant quarantine
¹non-native Hieracium species except those listed as Class A or Class B

U.S. Weed Information
Hieracium Hieracium caespitosum field hawkweed meadow hawkweed yellow hawkweed yellow kingdevil Hieracium pratense field hawkweed meadow hawkweed yellow hawkweed yellow kingdevil This plant and the related entities and synonyms italicized and indented above can be weedy or invasive according to the authoritative sources noted below.This plant may be known by one or more common names in different places, and some are listed above. Click on an acronym to view each weed list, or click here for a composite list of Weeds of the U.S.
STATE	Assorted authors. State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments.
N'EAST	Uva, R.H., J.C. Neal,and J.M. DiTomaso. 1997. Weeds of the Northeast. Cornell University Press. Ithaca, New York.

Wetland Status

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