| Scientific name: | Pilosella dubia (L.) F.W.Schultz & Sch.Bip. | |
| Synonym name: | Hieracium cymosum L.; Pilosella cymosa (L.) F.W.Schultz & Sch.Bip. | |
| Swedish name: | Styvhårig kvastfibbla (Kvastfibblor-Pilosella dubia-gruppen) | |
| German name: | Trugdoldige Habichtskraut | |
| Nederlandse naam: | een havikskruid | |
| English name: | a hawkweed (Pilosella dubia Group) | |
| Family: | Asteraceae, Sunflower family, Korgblommiga växter |
|
|
| Life form: | Hemi-cryptophyte | |
| Stems: | Height 30-70cm, stem unbranched, hairy | |
| Leaves: | Basal rosette, leaf blade linear-lanceolate, entire, sometimes finely srrated, hairy | |
| Flowers: | Corymbs of yellow many-stellate flowers, flower 1.5-2 cm wide | |
| Flowering Period: | June-July | |
| Fruits: | Achene, roll-shaped, grooved, 1.5-2.5 mm long nut, filled to the top with an off-light brown, unbranched or weakly branched short hairs. | |
| Habitat: | Dry sunny slopes, in forest clearings, screes, roadsides etc. | |
| Distribution: | Almost the entire country, except in northernmost Norrland and in south. |
 Derivation of the botanical name: Hieracium, Greek hierax, a hawk, from the fanciful tale that hawks sharpened their sight by anointing their eyes with the juice of one or other of the plants so named: Hawkeyed. cymosum full of, abounding in young sprouts. Pilosella Latin Pilosus, hairy. Dubia, the group name Dubia comes from the Latin dubium (doubt) and means doubtful.
   |