FLORA OF ICELAND elements: Hieracium alpinum, alpine hawkweed

Hieracium alpinum; The taxonomy of Hawkweeds is very complicated (see card on H. spp.). The Alpine Hawkweed has unbranched flowering stems and are shorter than other hawkweeds. Also they are more hairy than the common Hieracium spp. but Psilosella islandica (Iceland Hawkweed) is also very hairy, but they have blackish hairs where H. alpinum has light hairs.
It is member of the Compositae (syn.: Asteraceae) family, i.e. daisy family.

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