The flowers of this plant looked just like Hawkweed flowers. There are a handful of Hawkweeds in New Hampshire that have leaves growing up the stem. Below is a list and the reasons why this plant does not match a different Hawkweed:
- Allegheny Hawkweed (Hieracium paniculatum): Stem is mostly hairless. Leaves are papery thin and narrowly elliptical. Flowers grow on thin, flexible stems that tend to droop.
- Kalm’s Hawkweed (Canada Hawkweed) (Hieracium kalmii): Hairs on peduncle (flower stalk) are not gland-tipped. (See last picture in table below).
- Common Hawkweed (Hieracium lachenalii): Mostly larger basal leaves with 4-7 sessile stem leaves. 4-12 flowers in a round-topped cluster.
- Maryland Hawkweed (Hieracium marianum): Mostly basal leaves with two to several stem leaves.
- Robinson’s Hawkweed (Hieracium robinsonii): Leaves with slightly larger and more regular teeth that make is look a bit like a wide-leaved Fall Dandelion (Leontodon autumnalis). White hairs on flower stem.
- Narrowleaf Hawkweed (Hieracium umbellatum): Narrowleaf Hawkweed has a much thinner leaf width (up to 1-1/2 inches wide).
