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Hieracium
Hieracium or hawkweeds, like others in the Asteraceae family, have mostly yellow,tightly packed flower-heads of numerous small flowers but, unlike daisies and sunflowers in the same family, they have not two kinds of florets but only strap-shaped (spatulate) florets, each one of which is a complete flower in itself, not lacking stamens, and joined to the stem by leafy bracts. As in other members of the tribe Cichorieae, each ray corolla is tipped by 3 to 5 teeth
Spotted on Mar 22, 2013
Submitted on Mar 22, 2013
