Family: Asteraceae Hypochaeris radicata     *     Cat's-ear Flowering time: June-September. Perennial Habitat: Very common and abundant; roadsides, walls, waste and arable land and on dunes. Very variable. The bright yellow flowers are greyish below outer florets and have long, thin, narrow, colourless scales amongst the flowers. Involucre with purple-tipped bracts. Flower stems simple or once/twice branched, +/- hairless, enlarged at top, with dark, scaly bracts ('cats ears'). Similar: Lesser Hawkbit, Leontodon taraxacoides. Stems without bracts

     



Cat's-ear, Hypochaeris radicata
Holton Lee, Dorset. October 2012