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Narrowleaf Hawkweed - Hieracium umbellatum
Other Names:
Hieracium canadense
Native Species
Global Rank:
G5
State Rank:
S4
C-value:
4
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General Description
Fibrous-rooted from a short rhizome. Stems often branched above, erect, 30–90 cm. Herbage glabrate, often sparsely hirsute toward base. Leaves mainly cauline, basal withered at flowering, sessile above; blades oblanceolate to ovate, entire to shallowly dentate, 3–12 cm long. Heads 3 to 20; involucre campanulate, 8–14 mm high; phyllaries linear-lanceolate, glabrate to puberulent or sparsely short-setose. Rays 30 to 80, yellow; ligules 6–11 mm long. Achenes 2–4 mm long; pappus white or tawny (
Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Species Range
Montana Range
Range Descriptions
Native
Range Comments
AK to Greenland south to OR, CO, IA and WV (Lesica et al. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. BRIT Press. Fort Worth, TX).
Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 75
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Recency
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Habitat
Ecology
POLLINATORS The following animal species have been reported as pollinators of this plant species or its genus where their geographic ranges overlap:
Bombus ternarius,
Bombus terricola,
Bombus bohemicus, and
Bombus flavidus (Heinrich 1976, Colla and Dumesh 2010).
References
- Literature Cited AboveLegend:
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Colla, S.R. and S. Dumesh. 2010. The bumble bees of southern Ontario: notes on natural history and distribution. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario 141:39-68.- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2012. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 771 p.
- Additional ReferencesLegend: View Online Publication
Do you know of a citation we're missing?- Aradottir, A.L. 1984. Ammonia volatilization from native grasslands and forests of SW Montana. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 48 p.
- Lesica, P., M.T. Lavin, and P.F. Stickney. 2022. Manual of Montana Vascular Plants, Second Edition. Fort Worth, TX: BRIT Press. viii + 779 p.
- Plaggemeyer, J.B. 1995. Effects of overstory thinning on lodgepole pine understories. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 55 p.
- Simanonok, M.P. and L.A. Burkle. 2019. Nesting success of wood-cavity-nesting bees declines with increasing time since wildfire. Ecology and Evolution 9:12436-12445.
- White, K.L. 1960. Differential range use by mule deer in the spruce-fir zone. Northwest Science 34(4):118-126.
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