Orange hawkweed, épervière orangée

Pilosella aurantiaca (Linnaeus) F. W. Schultz & Schultz-Bipontinus

Plants 15–35(–60+) cm. Stems proximally piloso-hirsute (hairs 2–4+ mm), distally piloso-hirsute (hairs 1–4 mm) and stipitate-glandular. Leaves: basal 3–8+, cauline 0(–1+); blades spatulate to oblanceolate, 45–70(–160+) × 10–35 mm, lengths 3–5+ times widths, bases cuneate, margins entire, apices acute, faces piloso-hirsute (hairs 1–2+ mm) and stellate-pubescent. Heads 3–7(–12+) in ± umbelliform arrays. Peduncles stellate-pubescent and stipitate-glandular. Calyculi: bractlets 5–8+. Involucres campanulate, 6–8 mm. Phyllaries 13–30+, apices acuminate, abaxial faces piloso-hirsute, stellate-pubescent, and stipitate-glandular. Florets 25–120+; corollas orange (drying scarlet to purplish), 10–14+ mm. Cypselae columnar, 1.2–1.5(–2) mm; pappi of 25–30+, white bristles in 1 series, 3.5–4 mm.

Flowering (May–)Jun–Aug(–Sep). Disturbed sites (fields, lawns, roadsides), bogs, clays, sands; introduced; 10–300(–1000+) m; St. Pierre and Miquelon; Alta., B.C., Man., N.B., Nfld. and Labr., N.S., Ont., P.E.I., Que., Sask.; Alaska, Ark., Calif., Colo., Conn., Fla., Ga., Idaho, Ill., Ind., Iowa, Ky., Maine, Md., Mass., Mich., Minn., Mont., N.H., N.J., N.Y., N.C., Ohio, Oreg., Pa., R.I., S.Dak., Tenn., Vt., Va., Wash., W.Va., Wis., Wyo.; Europe.