Hieracium venosum L.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Asteraceae

• Scientific Name

  Hieracium venosum L.

• Description

  Species Description - Stems 1–few from a short, praemorse rhizome, 2–8 dm, glabrous or very nearly so, naked or with 1–3(–6) reduced lvs; basal lvs elliptic to ovate or broadly oblanceolate, 3–16 cm (short petiole included) × 0.8–5 cm, 1.7–5 times as long as wide, often densely long-setose along the margins and toward the base, otherwise sparsely so or subglabrous, the midrib and main veins generally reddish-purple above in life, the whole undersurface sometimes reddish-purple; infl open, corymbiform, the peduncles elongate, usually slender, and often rather flexuous; invol 7–10 mm, glabrous or sometimes evidently stipitate-glandular, obscurely or not at all stellate, the peduncles likewise; fls 15–40 per head; achenes 2.2–4 mm, truncate or more often distinctly narrowed near the summit; 2n=18. Mostly in dry, open woods; N.Y. to Va. and n. Ga., w. to Mich., Ky., Tenn., and Ala.; c. Fla. May–July. H. ×scribneri Small is a hybrid with no. 15, and H. ×marianum Willd. is thought to be a hybrid with no. 16 [Hieracium gronovii L.] or 18 [Hieracium scabrum Michx].

• Common Names

  veiny hawkweed