Pilosella scouleri facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Pilosella scouleri
At the Dark Divide, Washington
Scientific classification
Synonyms
Hieracium absonum J.F.Macbr. & Payson Hieracium albertinum Farr Hieracium chapacanum Zahn Hieracium cusikii Gand. Hieracium cynoglossoides Arv.-Touv. Hieracium scouleri Hook. Hieracium scouleri Hook. ex A.Gray

Pilosella scouleri (synonym Hieracium scouleri) is a North American species of flowering plant in the dandelion tribe within the sunflower family. It is known as Scouler's woollyweed. It is native to western North America, from British Columbia and Alberta in Canada, south to northern California and Utah in the United States.

Pilosella scouleri grows in a variety of mountainous habitats. It produces a basal rosette of long, narrow leaves 10–20 centimetres (3.9–7.9 in) long, which are generally hairy to bristly. The plant produces an erect stem 30–70 centimetres (12–28 in) tall which bears the inflorescence. Each flower head has large, curling bracts with glandular hairs or bristles, long, bright yellow ray florets but no disc florets. The achene is about 3 millimetres (0.12 in) long.