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Autumn Hawkbit

Autumn Hawkbit

Scorzoneroides autumnalis

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How common: Very common

Autumn Hawkbit is a small yellow-flowered plant that often looks like a delicate dandelion. It makes a low patch of narrow, often lobed leaves and sends up thin, branching stalks with several small flower heads. You can spot it in lawns, paths, roadsides and meadows from mid-summer into autumn.

Did you know?

  • The flower heads close in cool evenings and may stay closed on cloudy days.
  • Unlike dandelions, broken stems and leaves do not ooze white milky sap.

About the species

Identification

A long-lived plant forming a flat leaf rosette on the ground. Leaves narrow and mostly hairless, usually cut into pairs of narrow lobes, sometimes almost whole. Flowering stalks 10–40 cm, thin, leafless and often branching. Several yellow, dandelion-like heads 2.5–3 cm across; the outer petals often show a reddish stripe underneath. No white milky sap. After flowering, small hard seeds carry a pale, feathery parachute. Differs from true dandelions by branched, leafless stalks with several heads and the lack of milky sap. Flowers in Finland from July to October.

Plant group

Herbaceous plants

Habitat

meadow

Flowering

Jul–Oct

About the habitat

Open, disturbed and grassy places such as lawns, paths and roadsides, pastures and meadows, rocky ground and seashores; it tolerates trampling. Common throughout the country.

Sources

Photo: Joanna Boisse, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlas roslin pl Brodawnik jesienny 7619 7912.jpg

Text: Pinkka: Verso- ja leviäintunnistus - Kaikki leviäimet, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39917

Text: Pinkka: Verso- ja leviäintunnistus - Kaikki versot, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39917

Text: Pinkka: BIO-503 Suomen kasvisto ja kasvillisuus - Tunturit: rakat ja soraikot, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39917

Text: Pinkka: Ålandsexkursion, CC BY 4.0 https://laji.fi/taxon/MX.39917

Text: Wikipedia (Finnish), CC BY-SA 4.0 https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syysmaitiainen

See also