Asteraceae
Smooth hawkweed
Hieracium laevigatum
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Hieracium
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Smooth hawkweed
Synonyms
- Hieracium arrectum Boreau
- Hieracium arrectum subsp. arrectum
- Hieracium firmum Jord.
- Hieracium laevigatum subsp. firmum (Jord.) Zahn
- Hieracium laevigatum var. laevigatum
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Lower 48 states: native
Photos
Photo: Danny Steven S., CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Danny Steven S., CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Danny Steven S., CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Danny Steven S., CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Danny Steven S., CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Danny Steven S., CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Udo Schmidt from Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Udo Schmidt from Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Udo Schmidt from Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Alogiraf, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: JmGuasch, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Marie Hus, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0); popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.