Hawkweed oxtongue
(Picris hieracioides)

Description:
Height: 30-140 cm. Plant very variable in forms. Budding from roots.

Stem erect, furrowed, branched, stiffly hairy.

Leaves basal in rosette. Leaves lanceolate, toothed, short-stalked below, sessile and slightly amplexicaul above, covered with short hairs often forked at the apex into hooked branches (rough and hooking), dull-green.

Flowers yellow, ligulate, in heads arranged in corymb -like. Involucral bracts, narrow, not bristly but somewhat hooked.

Fruit : achene reddish-brown, 3-5 mm long, with fine interrupted transverse wrinkles; beak very short with a deciduous pappus of feathery hairs.

Biological type: biennial.

• Mechanical: Not Known
• Biological: Not Known
• Herbicide: Not Known

For More Information:
Detailed information about Hawkweed orange is available at the Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board Web Site.