Common name:
Lesser hawkbit
Family:
Scientific name:
Leontodon saxatilis
Main flower color:
Range:
England and Wales
Height:
Up to 25 cm
Habitat:
Dry grassland, sand dunes
Flowers:
Solitary flowerheads of many yellow florets, up to 25 mm in diameter, subtended by green bracts which are generally hairless apart from a line of short, bristly hairs along the middle. Most bracts are equal in length, covering all of the involucre; there are also a few shorter bracts at the base. Flower stems are leafless, mostly hairless towards the tip but bristly below. Flowerheads are drooping in bud
Leaves:
Lanceolate, lined with wavy lobes, sparsely hairy (those on the undersurface are forked); in a basal rosette
Season:
June to October
Rarity:
★★★★★
