Status: Native
Synonyms
Heteropleura fendleri (Schultz-Bipontinus) Rydberg
Hieracium fendleri is a herb to approximately 30cm with a pilose stem and ovate
pilose leaves with an obviously white central vein at least on the younger leaves. The small yellow
flowers have about 10 rays with 4 or 5 shallow notches in each one. The achenes persist on the receptable resembling a "dandelion." The achenes are tan, longitudinally shallowly striate, and the pappus is of
more than 20 white bristles.
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Hieracium fendleri, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Richard Felger, and Leith Young, Black Range, Emory Pass, June 8, 2008
Hieracium fendleri, base of plant, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Richard Felger, and Leith Young, Black Range, Emory Pass, June 8, 2008
Hieracium fendleri, inflorescence, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Richard Felger, and Leith Young, Black Range, Emory Pass, June 8, 2008
Hieracium fendleri, achene, photo Russ Kleinman, Bill Norris, Richard Felger, and Leith Young, Black Range, Emory Pass, June 8, 2008
Hieracium fendleri, inflorescence, photo Russ Kleinman and the GNPS field trip to Signal Peak, Signal Peak turnoff, Black Range, July 19, 2009
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