Hawkbits and Hawkweeds etc

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8 June 2020

 

Mouse-eared Hawkweed

PIxie Path to Mill Hill

14 October 2016

 

 

Smooth Hawk's-beard from Mill Hill

 

10 October 2016 Buckingham Cutting (south) was covered in Hawkbit leaves. Hairy and not red underneath, I thought the flowers were Rough Hawkbit despite being late in the season. To make identification even more tricky the grass verge at the top of The Drive also included Lesser Hawkbit.  There did not seem to be any Autumnal Hawkbit.  Lesser Hawkbit

Rough Hawkbit

7 October 2016

Autumnal Hawkbit ?
Gordon Road verges, Shoreham

 

Autumnal Hawkbit is a short grassland perennial most likely to be confused with Cat's-ear but with a stem that swells towards the top, no chaffy scales among the florets and with outer florets reddish beneath not greyish or greenish as is the case with Cat's-ear. Flowers form in loose clusters and bloom from July to October. The leaves of the basal rosette have sharper tips and sharper lobes than either Cat's-ear or Rough Hawkbit.

Emorsgate Seeds

 

15 July 2016

Mouse-eared Hawkweed                                                                Rough Hawkbit

Mill Hill Cutting (south)

 

 

Mouse-eared Hawkweed

 

 

Rough Hawkbit

 

19 October 2014

 

Mostly Lesser Hawkbit, Leontodon saxatilis

except bottom left (large) Smooth Hawk's-beard and right Rough Hawkbit

Top left, maybe Autumnal Hawkbit

 

Mill Hill

 

15 May 2011 The first appearance of Lesser Hawkbit, Leontodon taraxacoides, this year, was most noted in chalky gardens at the top of The Drive, north Shoreham.

1 May 2011

Mouse-eared Hawkweed was spotted in flower in the Old Erringham pasture, by the wire fence next to Mill Hill Nature Reserve.

 

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11 July 2008  Hawkbits were very common on the lower slopes of Mill Hill, and these are both the Lesser Hawkbit noted for the first time this year, and also Rough Hawkbit also noted for the first time. The Rough Hawkbits tended to be larger and not so many of these.

 

9 May 2008

 

 

Possibilities: On the lower slopes of Mill Hill.

I did not check the leaves for Mouse-eared Hawkweed ?

1 November 2007 Autumnal Hawkbit on the lower slopes of Mill Hill.The leaf shape denotes a Hawkbit and the species is assumed from the time of the year.  This assumption is wrong and this looks like Rough Hawkbit.

2 July 2007

23 May 2007
 

Hawkbits and Mouse-eared Hawkweeds were in flower on the southern and northern banks of the Slonk Hill Cutting respectively. This Cutting may have been seeded with wild flowers whereas the lower slopes of Mill Hill are wild, so the plants may be of a different genetic stick, even if they are the same species.

22 May 2007
A few Rough Hawkbits* were in flower on the lower slopes of Mill Hill and these had dandelion-type leaves (but not the outer bracts of Dandelions) and I will have to discover what species these are?
(* Possibilities:  Rough Hawkbit Leontodon hispidus, or Lesser Hawkbit Leontodon saxatilis).

The stem is smooth (not hairy as in the photograph below) on the Lesser Hawkbit.