Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Autumn Hawkbit, Leontodon autumnalis, Caisearrbhán caol dearg
Photographs: Co. Cork

Autumn Hawkbit
Scorzoneroides autumnalis (Leontodon autumnalis)
Crág phortáin
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering time: June - October. Perennial. Native.

2-7 yellow flowers on branched flower stalks with few scale leaves. Seed achenes with a pappus of feathery hairs but without a beak. Very variable, leaves are untoothed to deeply pinnate, hairless or sparsely hairy. Height: 15-35cm.

Very frequent on roadsides and damp grassland.

Similar: Rough Hawkbit, Leontodon hispidus. Similar yellow flowers but much hairier, wavy-toothed leaves.

Autumn Hawkbit, Leontodon autumnalis, Caisearrbhán caol dearg

Autumn Hawkbit, Leontodon autumnalis, Caisearrbhán caol dearg
Autumn Hawkbit, Scorzoneroides autumnalis (Leontodon autumnalis), Caisearrbhán caol dearg

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