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 |