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Hieracium britannicoides. A, plant. B-E rosette leaves; B and D lower sides, C and E upper sides. F, capitulum. G, involucral bract. Scale bars 1 cm. Del. T. Rich.
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Hieracium britannicoides, Confused Hawkweed, is a Welsh endemic plant confined to Caernarvonshire (v.c.49) and Denbighshire (v.c.50). Field surveys 2009-2019 indicate at least 390 plants in eight sites. The IUCN threat status is ‘Vulnerable’. The main threats are spread of alien woody species (especially Cotoneaster), which without continued manage...
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... with few to numerous simple eglandular hairs beneath, the absence of stem leaves (or sometimes a very reduced ±linear leaf), the few-headed inflorescences with 2-6 capitula, the involucral bracts with few to numerous stellate hairs (especially near the base), numerous dark glandular hairs and numerous simple eglandular hairs, and yellow styles (Figs. 1-3). Hieracium britannicoides is intermediate morphologically between H. britannicum and H. britanniciforme and has at separate times been included in both of them (Sell & Murrell, 2006); it clearly merits its common name 'Confused Hawkweed'. In North Wales, H. britannicoides is readily distinguished from H. britanniciforme by its smaller ...
