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Definition of Hieracium aurantiacum
1. Noun. European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium.
Group relationships: Genus Pilosella, Pilosella
Generic synonyms: Weed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hieracium Aurantiacum
Literary usage of Hieracium aurantiacum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"hieracium aurantiacum L. Orange or Tawny Hawkweed. ... hieracium aurantiacum L.
Sp. PI. 801. 1753. Stoloniferous; stem leafless or rarely with i or 2 small ..."
2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"... hieracium aurantiacum L. Devil's paintbrush; Orange hawkweed Herbaceous
perennial Abandoned fields, meadows and pastures. Hieracium caespitosum Dumort. ..."
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