Asteraceae
Woolly hawkweed
Hieracium triste
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Genus
- Hieracium
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Common names
By language (1)
- English
- Woolly hawkweed
Synonyms
- Chlorocrepis tristis (Willd. ex Spreng.) Á.Löve & D.Löve
- Chlorocrepis tristis subsp. gracilis (Hook.) W.A.Weber
- Chlorocrepis tristis subsp. tristis
- Hieracium arcticum Froel.
- Hieracium gracile Hook.
- Hieracium gracile subvar. densifloccum Zahn
- Hieracium gracile var. alaskanum Zahn
- Hieracium gracile var. densifloccum (Zahn) Cronquist
- Hieracium gracile var. detonsum (A.Gray) A.Gray
- Hieracium gracile var. gracile
- Hieracium gracile var. yukonense A.E.Porsild
- Hieracium triste subsp. gracile (Hook.) Calder & Roy L.Taylor
- Hieracium triste subsp. triste
- Hieracium triste var. detonsum A.Gray
- Hieracium triste var. fulvum Hultén
- Hieracium triste var. gracile (Hook.) A.Gray
- Hieracium triste var. triste
- Hieracium triste var. tristiforme Zahn
- Stenotheca tristis (Willd. ex Spreng.) Schljakov
Characteristics
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Lifespan
- Perennial
- In the US and Canada
- Alaska: native, Canada: native, Lower 48 states: native
Photos

Photo: Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0); common names, US characteristics from USDA PLANTS Database (2025-05-29, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.