Hawkbits and Hawkweeds etc

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11 July 2008  Hawkbits were very common on the lower slopes of Mill Hill, and these are both the Autumnal 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: Rough Hawkbit Leontodon hispidus, or Lesser Hawkbit, Leontodon saxatilis,on the lower slopes of Mill Hill.

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

1 November 2007 Autumnal Hawbit, Leontodon autumnalis, on the lower slopes of Mill Hill.The leaf shape denotes a Hawkbit and the species is assumed from the time of the year.

2 July 2007

23 May 2007
 

Hawkbitsand 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.
 

Autumnal Hawkbit, Leontodon autumnalis, can be thought of as the prevalent autumn equivalent of the Dandelion.