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Asteraceae
Hairy hawkbit
Leontodon saxatilis
Also known as Common hawkbit, Rough hawkbit, Fall hawkbit, Leontodon crispus subsp. saxatilis
Native Plants · Wildflower · Meadow Plant · Pollinator · Yellow Flowers · Rockery · Grassland · Low Maintenance · Perennial · Native · Dandelion-Like
Hairy hawkbit is a low-growing perennial wildflower with dandelion-like yellow blooms that provide an important early nectar source for bees and butterflies. It thrives in poor, well-drained soils in meadows, lawns, or rockeries and requires very little care once established. This plant is an excellent choice for naturalistic or wildflower garden settings.
Growing conditions
The details behind the basics
- Daily light
- 5 hours
- Watering
- Light watering until soil is barely moist; highly tolerant of dry conditions once established · Every 10-14 days; rainfall usually sufficient when established
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- loam
- Soil pH
- 5.5–7.5
- Temperature
- -25°F to 85°F
- Cycle
- Perennial
- Propagation
- Seed, Division
Hardiness
USDA 4b-9b
Form & growth
Mature size and habit
- Mature height
- 12 in – 3 ft
- Spread
- 2 ft
- Spacing
- 8 in apart
- Growth rate
- Moderate
- Root depth
- Medium
- Flowers
- No
- Foliage
- Medium
Ecology & origin
Where it belongs and what it brings
- Native to
- Alabama, Albania, Antipodean Is., Arizona, Austria, Azores, Belarus, Belgium, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, Chatham Is., Connecticut, Corse, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece
- Attracts
- Bees, Butterflies
Sources: trefle, usda
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