Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Cats-ear, Hypochaeris radicata, Cluas chait
Photographs: Co. Cork

Cat's-ear
Hypochaeris radicata
Cluas chait
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering June - September. Perennial. Native.

Bright yellow flowers, greyish below outer florets. Long, thin, narrow, colourless scales amongst the flowers. Stems more/less hairless, enlarging at top, with dark, scaly bracts. Simple or once/twice branched. Leaves wavy-toothed, more/less bristly, oblong-lanceolate in basal rosette. Flower stems 20-40cm. Very variable.

Very common on roadsides, walls, grassland and dunes.

Very similar: Lesser Hawkbit, Leontodon taraxacoides

Cats-ear, Hypochaeris radicata, Cluas chait

Cats-ear, Hypochaeris radicata, Cluas chait
Cats-ear, Hypochaeris radicata, Cluas chait

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