Health is the Flora of Today: Hawkweed

 

Hawkweed 

Hieracium (/haɪ.əˈræsiəm/),[3] known by the common name hawkweed[4] and classically as hierakion (from ancient Greek ιεράξ, hierax 'hawk'),[5] is a genus of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, and closely related to dandelion (Taraxacum), chicory (Cichorium), prickly lettuce (Lactuca) and sow thistle (Sonchus),[6] which are part of the tribe Cichorieae. Hawkweeds, with their 10,000+ recorded species and subspecies,[7] do their part to make Asteraceae the second largest family of flowering plants.[8] Some botanists group all these species or subspecies into approximately 800 accepted species