Hieracium aurantiacum




Family Asteraceae (alt. Compositae)
Scientific name Hieracium aurantiacum L.
Synonyms Pilosella aurantiaca (L.) F. W. Schultz & Schultz Bipontinus
Common name (Japanese common name) kourin-tanpopo (コウリンタンポポ, 紅輪蒲公英 [meaning: scarlet wheel tanpopo (meaning of tanpopo is unknown)]), efude-tanpopo (エフデギク, 絵筆菊 [meaning: paintbrush aster])
(English common name) devil's paintbrush, fox-and-cubs, king-devil, orange hawkweed
Distribution (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku
(Other nations) [native] Europe
Habitat Field, roadside
Chromosomal number 2n=36
Description Plants electing 10-50cm tall, hairy. Leaves 6-20cm long, 1.2-3.5cm wide. Flowers orange and red ca. 1.5cm across, flowering in June to August. Perennial plants.
Reference Hieracium aurantiacum L.
Hieracium aurantiacum Linnaeus
Hieracium aurantiacum L.
Hieracium aurantiacum L.
Combination of plants for telling the time (WIPO Patent WO/1998/022855)
Note Naturalized plants.



June 2008
at field in Hokkaido
June 2008
at field in Hokkaido
June 2008
at field in Hokkaido



June 2008
at field in Hokkaido



June 2008
at field in Hokkaido
June 2008
at field in Hokkaido