Hieracium albiflorum: UW-Stevens Point Freckmann Herbarium: Plant Details Page

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Family Asteraceae
Hieracium albiflorum Hook. ?
[Excluded] white 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.
albiflorum: white-flowered

Status:	Excluded
(Glossary)

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Synonyms

Chlorocrepis albiflora (Hook.) W.A.Weber
Hieracium helleri Gand.

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