Field Guide to Noxious and Other Selected Weeds of British Columbia

Orange Hawkweed
(Hieracium aurantiacum)

• Regional Noxious Weed

• fibrous-rooted perennial with milky juice and above ground runners grows 30 to 60 cm tall; leaves mostly basal; leafless flowering stalk covered with stiff, black, glandular hairs; vibrant orange-red flowers

• similar plants include yellow hawkweed (Hieracium pratense) which has yellow flowers and meadow hawkweed (Hieracium pilosella), also yellow-flowered but with only one flower head per stem

• over 15 hawkweed species occur in British Columbia. Most are yellow-flowered native plants

	Orange hawkweed with stiff, glandular hairs
	Yellow hawkweed flower