Orange Hawkweed by durleybeachbum

Photography • Flowers/Plants • posted on Jul 01, 2013

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Description

Hieracium aurantiacum. "Orange hawkweed is a creeping perennial of low maintenance turf, roadsides and brownfield areas. It can be an indicator of low soil fertility or slightly acidic soils. Hawkweed spreads by stolons and rhizomes creating colonies that form patches. The leaves lay flat to the ground and overlap and will smother non-vigorous turf. All parts of hawkweed are conspicuously hairy and, like dandelion, will exude a white milky sap when broken. Bright orange flowers form in clusters at the top of the 10-20 inch hairy mostly leafless stalks." This invasive wild flower is too pretty top be eradicated from my garden, but I have to keep an eye on it!

Comments (24)

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kaward

11:24AM | Mon, 01 July 2013

It always brightens up my day when I see it in the wild! I wouldn't pull it up in turned up in my garden either.

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Meisiekind

11:25AM | Mon, 01 July 2013

Oh they are lovely Andrea! The orange is beautiful and so summery. At the moment it is so colorless here down south!

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kgb224

11:47AM | Mon, 01 July 2013

Superb capture Andrea. God bless.

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pat40

11:47AM | Mon, 01 July 2013

Beautiful Andrea

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Adobe_One_Kenobi

12:07PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

What a cracking shot Andrea, The petals are a little like Chicory.

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jendellas

1:11PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

Beautiful colour!!

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Celart

1:12PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

Beautiful colors and shot

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jayfar

2:03PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

I love the look of these, really beautiful. Strangely enough I have posted an orange flower tonight.

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moochagoo

2:50PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

Very nice capture and colors !

alanwilliams

4:51PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

a beautiful interloper

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anmes

4:59PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

Great group..amazing colour gradations details even finer in zoom.

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sandra46

5:06PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

BRILLIANT WORK

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goodoleboy

5:43PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

A weed, really? Such a pity that this beauty, though capable of running amok in your garden, is classified in the nether regions of flora. Capital macro work in this stunner, A.

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Faemike55

5:49PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

Very cool and beautiful flower/weed

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danapommet

8:08PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

Lovely capture and color - to bad it is invasive.

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MrsRatbag

8:20PM | Mon, 01 July 2013

Ooh, I've only seen the yellow ones here, these are stunning!

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wysiwig

12:49AM | Tue, 02 July 2013

These are very pretty. Maybe its the petal edges but they give me the impression of being hand made. I wouldn't pull them up either.

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Katraz

1:34AM | Tue, 02 July 2013

Great shot, I have some of this It looks great.

whaleman

3:34AM | Tue, 02 July 2013

Oh, this is a very pretty flower!

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Juliette.Gribnau

3:47AM | Tue, 02 July 2013

they are so lovely and active little flowers !

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clbsmiley

6:49AM | Tue, 02 July 2013

Color of the season!!

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dakotabluemoon

7:00AM | Tue, 02 July 2013

Wow these are so beautiful incredible flower.

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auntietk

11:01PM | Tue, 02 July 2013

These would be welcome in my yard any time! (Don't tell Bill ... he's on a mission to have lush, perfect grass right now. I'm waiting for him to get bored with that, and have a lovely creeping thyme waiting in the wings.) :P

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