hieracium aurantiacum

1. 1.

   European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium

   Synonymsorange hawkweedPilosella aurantiaca

   Broaderweed

   Part ofPilosella

Questions about hieracium aurantiacum

What does hieracium aurantiacum mean?

hieracium aurantiacum means "European hawkweed having flower heads with bright orange-red rays; a troublesome weed especially as naturalized in northeastern North America; sometimes placed in genus Hieracium".

What is another word for hieracium aurantiacum?

Close synonyms include orange hawkweed, Pilosella aurantiaca. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hieracium aurantiacum a common word?

hieracium aurantiacum is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.