Mouse-ear-hawkweed - Pilosella officinarum

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Alternative names
Mouse-ear Hawkweed
Description

Low to short stoloniferous plant with long woolly white hairs. Leaves all in a basal rosette often broadest above the middle, untoothed, white felted beneath. Flowerheads lemon yellow, 20 to 30 mm solitary, the outer florets often red striped beneath.

Identification difficulty
Habitat

Grassy, waste and bare places.

When to see it

May to July.

Life History

Perennial.

UK Status

Frequent throughout Britain but less common in East Anglia and northern Scotland.

VC55 Status

Frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 311 of the 617 tetrads.

  • Melinda Bell
    Brown's Hill Quarry
    15 June 2022
  • David Nicholls
    Altar Stones
    29 September 2012
  • David Gould
    Croft Pasture
    26 June 2014
  • Graham Calow
    Croft Pasture
    09 May 2014
  • David Nicholls
    Bardon Hill
    14 April 2022
  • Graham Calow
    Wood Road, near Nailstone
    24 May 2016
  • Steve Mathers
    Bradgate Park
    08 May 2017
  • David Nicholls
    New Lount Nature Reserve
    13 May 2016
  • Graham Calow
    Narborough Road Cemetery, Cosby
    17 June 2016
    leaf
  • Graham Calow
    Narborough Road Cemetery, Cosby
    17 June 2016
    underside of leaf
  • Graham Calow
    Wood Road, near Nailstone
    24 May 2016
  • David Nicholls
    Ketton Quarry
    13 June 2014
  • Graham Calow
    Wood Road, near Nailstone
    24 May 2016

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

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Species profile

Common names
Mouse-ear-hawkweed
Species group:
Wildflowers
Kingdom:
Plantae
Order:
Asterales
Family:
Asteraceae
Records on NatureSpot:
143
First record:
23/04/2007 (Dave Wood)
Last record:
22/08/2023 (Strong, Kate)

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  • David Nicholls
    Hill Hole Quarry
    02 June 2011
  • Graham Calow
    Sapcote
    11 June 2013
  • David Nicholls
    Croft Pasture
    09 May 2014