Woolly hawkweed

Appearance

''Hieracium triste'' is a perennial herb. It produces a milky latex that often is described erroneously as sap. It is 3–35 cm tall and is unbranched. The stem has long hairs and some hairs that look like stars. The entire plant rarely grows more than 30 cm tall.

Habitat

Slender hawkweed grows in moist to wet open sites. It grows in mid-montane to alpine areas. It is most commonly seen below the timberline in areas with whitebark pine and alpine larch. It likes dry sites at lower elevations from Southern Colorado to Wyoming.