Family Asteraceae
Hieracium pilosella L. var. pilosella
mouse-ear hawkweed
Hieracium: classical name hierakion from ancient Greek hierax, "a hawk". The Roman naturalist Pliny believed that hawks fed on this plant to strengthen their eyesight and thus it became the Greek and Latin name for this and similar plants, called hawkweed.
pilosella: pilosus for "hairy;" ella for "diminutive;" hence "a little hairy"
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