Appearance
It is a hispid perennial plant, with a basal rosette of leaves. The whole plant, with the exception of the flower parts, is covered in glandular hairs, usually whitish, sometimes reddish on the stem.The rosette leaves are entire, acute to blunt, and range from 1–12 centimetres long and 0.5–2 centimetres broad. Their underside is tomentose.
The flowering stem is generally between 5–50 centimetres tall, and sprouts from the centre of the basal rosette.
The flowerheads are borne singly on the scape and are a pale lemon-yellow colour, with the outermost ligules having a reddish underside. It flowers from May until August and the flowers are visited by various groups of insects, especially flies.
Naming
Shetland mouse-ear hawkweed is similar, but has two flowers per leaf stalk. It is found in the Shetland Islands only, on rocky coastal grassland. It flowers from May to August.
Habitat
The plant favours dry, sunny areas. It grows well on sandy and similarly less fertile ground types. It produces stolons which generate a new rosette at their extremity, each rosette has the possibility of developing into a new clone forming dense mats in open space. It also propagates by seeds.References:
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