Taxonomy

• Kingdom: Plantae
• Clade: Tracheophytes
• Clade: Angiosperms
• Clade: Eudicots
• Clade: Superasterids
• Clade: Asterids
• Clade: Campanulids
• Order: Asterales
• Family: Asteraceae
• Subfamily: Cichorioideae
• Tribe: Cichorieae
• Subtribe: Hieraciinae
• Genus: Hieracium
• Species: Hieracium umbellatum

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

• Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with Picris hieracioides L., 1753, which has broader, hairy involucral bracts, while H. umbellatum has narrower and glabrous involucral bracts.

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

• H. umbellatum subsp. bichlorophyllum (Druce & Zahn) P.D.Sell & C.West, 1967;
• H. umbellatum subsp. brevifolioides Zahn, 1906;
• H. umbellatum subsp. elisabethae (Kem.-Nath.) Greuter, 2007;
• H. umbellatum subsp. eurobalticum Zahn, 1922;
• H. umbellatum subsp. kluchoricum (Kem.-Nath.) Greuter, 2007;
• H. umbellatum subsp. ogwenii (E.F.Linton) W.R.Linton, 1905;
• H. umbellatum subsp. sublaetevirens Zahn, 1922;
• H. umbellatum subsp. topaeanum (Prodan) Greuter, 2007;
• H. umbellatum subsp. turfosum (Kem.-Nath.) Greuter, 2007;
• H. umbellatum subsp. umbellatum L., 1753, P.

Photographs

Sources

• Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 460). Biotope.