Orange Hawkweed by durleybeachbum
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Description
Hieracium aurantiacum.
"Orange hawkweed is a creeping perennial of low maintenance turf, roadsides and brownfield areas. It can be an indicator of low soil fertility or slightly acidic soils. Hawkweed spreads by stolons and rhizomes creating colonies that form patches. The leaves lay flat to the ground and overlap and will smother non-vigorous turf. All parts of hawkweed are conspicuously hairy and, like dandelion, will exude a white milky sap when broken. Bright orange flowers form in clusters at the top of the 10-20 inch hairy mostly leafless stalks."
This invasive wild flower is too pretty top be eradicated from my garden, but I have to keep an eye on it!
Comments (24)
It always brightens up my day when I see it in the wild! I wouldn't pull it up in turned up in my garden either.
Oh they are lovely Andrea! The orange is beautiful and so summery. At the moment it is so colorless here down south!
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
Beautiful Andrea
What a cracking shot Andrea, The petals are a little like Chicory.
Beautiful colour!!
Beautiful colors and shot
I love the look of these, really beautiful. Strangely enough I have posted an orange flower tonight.
Very nice capture and colors !
a beautiful interloper
Great group..amazing colour gradations details even finer in zoom.
BRILLIANT WORK
A weed, really? Such a pity that this beauty, though capable of running amok in your garden, is classified in the nether regions of flora. Capital macro work in this stunner, A.
Very cool and beautiful flower/weed
Lovely capture and color - to bad it is invasive.
Ooh, I've only seen the yellow ones here, these are stunning!
These are very pretty. Maybe its the petal edges but they give me the impression of being hand made. I wouldn't pull them up either.
Great shot, I have some of this It looks great.
Oh, this is a very pretty flower!
they are so lovely and active little flowers !
Color of the season!!
Wow these are so beautiful incredible flower.
These would be welcome in my yard any time! (Don't tell Bill ... he's on a mission to have lush, perfect grass right now. I'm waiting for him to get bored with that, and have a lovely creeping thyme waiting in the wings.) :P
beautiful flowers and colors.